Re: Windows 2003 Power Cfg Permission

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 10/25/04

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    I don't know the problem offhand but see the link below for a couple other
    registry entries to check and enable auditing of privilege use for failure
    to see if it shows a failure in the security log which would indicate that
    you lack a user right to perform a task. --- Steve

    http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html?part=69274&subj=dlpage&tag=button

    "Mike Streeter" <street02@patrickind.com> wrote in message
    news:eLp37ysuEHA.2012@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
    >I have a machine with Windows 2003 Standard that won't let me change the
    > power options in the Power Options Properties dialog (powercfg.cpl).
    > After
    > making the changes and clicking Apply, I get a "Not all privileges
    > referenced are assigned to the caller" error.
    >
    > If I try the powercfg command line tool, it also fails as shown below:
    > C:\WINDOWS\system32>powercfg /CHANGE "Always On" /monitor-timeout-ac 0
    > An unexpected error condition has occurred. Unable to perform operation.
    > You may not have permission to perform this operation.
    >
    > I haven't been able to figure out what I don't have permission to. I have
    > tried it both as "Administrator" and a user in the Administrators group.
    > As
    > far as I can tell from regmon and regedit, there are no problems updating
    > registry keys. Branches I have worked with are
    > "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Controls Folder\PowerCfg"
    > and "HKCU\Control Panel\PowerCfg"
    >
    > Regedit shows that my change from the Power Options Properties stays in
    > "HKCU\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\3\Policies" despite the error,
    > but the change does not take effect, and the next time I open the Power
    > Options Properties, the key changes back.
    >
    > Thank you for any help or ideas.
    >
    > -Mike
    >
    >

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