Question

Power Policy Manager unable to set active policy

Asked by: speedway

I have installed a new Windows 2000 Professional workstation on our Windows 2000 Domain.  When I installed the workstation using a local administrative account, I enabled the monitor power off option in display settings to 20 minutes.  After I finished the installation, I logged on to the domain using a domain user account from this workstation.  The user wants the monitor power off option change to 1 hour.

I cannot change the 20 mintues setting to 1 hour.  When I try to, I get the message “Power Policy Manager unable to set active policy”.  The user can change screen saver settings freely.

I have used the local administrator account to logon and changed the setting to 1 hour.  But when I logon as the user, the setting is still 20 minutes.

I played with gpedit.msc but could not find any settings that relate to the monitor power option.

I was finally able to change this setting for the user by adding the user to Domain Admin group on the Domain controller.  After I logged on from the computer as a Domain Admin, I was able to change the power setting.  Then I took off the user from the Domain Admin group and logged back on, the monitor power setting is still saved at 1 hour.

My question is how can I change the monitor power setting for the workstation without doing what I’ve done?  Is this part of the local computer policy or Domain policy?

Ideally, I like to set a default monitor power saving time in the domain and change to an individual’s preference is that person wants another setting.

Thanks for any reply.

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Answers

 

by: johnmcmillionPosted on 2003-06-18 at 19:14:54ID: 8754380

Any answer on this?  I am having the same exact issue.

 

by: speedwayPosted on 2003-06-19 at 07:39:53ID: 8758272

Nope.  At least I know now I not the only one with this problem.  For 500 points, hopefully someone can suggest something.

 

by: johnmcmillionPosted on 2003-06-19 at 19:56:30ID: 8763234

Well, here is my solution, not totally perfect, but still works.

In Active Directory, added "Domain Admin" to my membership for who I was logged on with.  The Domain Admin group is automatically put into the local machines Administrators group when you join a domain, so it let me have full control.  Then without any logging on or off, I was able to make changes to my power settings.

Then under Active Directory, went back and took out Domain Admin from my membership, and the setting has stayed through reboots/logging on or off.

So it did what I wanted it to do, but I wish I could find a policy in Group policy somewhere that was controlling it.

I came across a post from a Microsoft rep who said this reg key could fix it when logged on locally as Administrator, but it didn't seem to work because he said there was supposed to be a "Security" menu to set permissions, but I didn't find that in my regedit32 no matter who I was logged on as.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Controls Folder\PowerCfg\GlobalPowerPolicy]

I wish I could find a good reference on Default Domain Policies.  It seems just by joining a domain, there are certain ones implemented without any configurations made.  I want to know what they are.

Good luck!

John

 

by: speedwayPosted on 2003-06-24 at 16:31:04ID: 8793454

Thanks for your response.  I will try it and get back and probably give you the credit too since nothing else works.

 

by: speedwayPosted on 2003-07-11 at 14:06:01ID: 8906116

Your method is smilar to mine but it's a little bit faster.

I tried searching a lot of places but came up empity on a list of hidden or default group polices.  This policy just doesn't make sense to me.  If it is implemented by default, how come you can't edit or change it anywhere?

Another one on my long list of unsolved Windows mysteries.

I searched Microsoft Technet forums and fund this posting.  It sounds the same as your method:

-------------"The Power Schemes are set per user profile and you need admin rights to
change the power settings.

You have a few options:
-Temporarily give the user admin rights, modify the power scheme then log
them out and remove the admin rights.

-Modify the security on the registry key which will then allow normal users
to modify the power scheme:
        REGEDT32,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Controls
Folders\PowerCfg then Security | Permissions, give Authenticated Users Full
Control.

-Read up how to alter the default user profile and set this with the Power
Scheme settings you wish to have.

-I think (but am not certain) that you might be able to set the Power Scheme
with a GPO.-------------"


I couldn't find any Security | Permissions setting in the Regedit32 either.

 

by: dtiganiPosted on 2004-03-02 at 16:13:21ID: 10500612

Right-Click on the PowerCfg folder and choose Permissions.  I think this is what you were looking for.

 

by: kiaoPosted on 2005-10-03 at 10:07:04ID: 15007983

Did you have the solution ?

 

by: MehVafPosted on 2005-10-13 at 05:02:58ID: 15076235

Hi
If you want to choose a constant Power Policy for all users, you can create a text file that contains  these below lines and change its extention to .JS .

//////////// Begining Of File
var WshShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WScript.Shell");
WshShell.RegWrite ("HKEY_USERS\\.DEFAULT\\Control Panel\\PowerCfg\\CurrentPowerPolicy","1","REG_SZ");
WshShell.RegWrite ("HKCU\\Control Panel\\PowerCfg\\CurrentPowerPolicy","1","REG_SZ");
//////////// End Of File

Then run it via domain ( when computers starting up or when users logging on )
Here number "1" is used for "Portable/Laptop computer" Scheme.
You can use these schemes:

0 - Home/Office desktop
1 - Portable/Laptop computer
2 - Monitor on for presentations
3 - Network computer (no Wake-on-LAN)
4 - Optimized for high performance
5 - Optimized for power saving

Hope be useful

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