Re: Windows 2003 Power Cfg Permission

From: Mike Streeter (street02_at_patrickind.com)
Date: 10/26/04 

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:54:04 -0500

Enabling the auditing of privilege use gave me the info. I needed. For
other reasons, I had removed all users' rights to shut down, which must be
required in order to change Power Options. After re-adding the rights to
shut down, everything worked fine. Thanks for your help!
-Mike

"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> wrote in message
news:ul3rqjtuEHA.1988@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> 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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