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Guest account and power profile question
I occasionally have a visitor that I allow to use one of our computers.
I created Guest accounts for his use. I recently noticed that if he is the last one to use one of the computers that it will not enter a suspend state. I checked the power profile for the Guest user, set what I wanted, clicked okay, and got something like a not authorized message. Any way to fix power settings for the Guest account? I know I could ask this user to log out then select suspend from the Welcome Screen. If I could trust him to do that faithfully, I probably would have given him a regular account. Jeff Barnett |
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Guest account and power profile question
On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:45:23 -0600, Jeff Barnett wrote:
I occasionally have a visitor that I allow to use one of our computers. I created Guest accounts for his use. I recently noticed that if he is the last one to use one of the computers that it will not enter a suspend state. I checked the power profile for the Guest user, set what I wanted, clicked okay, and got something like a not authorized message. Any way to fix power settings for the Guest account? I know I could ask this user to log out then select suspend from the Welcome Screen. If I could trust him to do that faithfully, I probably would have given him a regular account. Jeff Barnett From your Administrator account; Control Panel, User Accounts, select his guest account, change that account type to Administrator. Boot to that account, make the chanes and save them, reboot to your account and change his account type back to limited. |
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Guest account and power profile question
Rather than changing the Guest account's privileges (something that was
never designed to be done with the special 'Guest' account), instead, try this; Power profiles are what's known as"Global" - when applied, they are applied to the entire system. With the [special] limits placed on the 'Guest' account, it is not possible to create new 'power profiles' - So, instead, login as an Administrator-level user and create a new power-profile for the Guest account (you could call it "Guest's Power"). Then, when you are next in the Guest's account, you should simply be able to switch to it, using the Power Options Properties control panel extension. Also, you could use a third-party utility, like FreshUI, to restrict the Guest user from being able to access the Power Options control panel, and from changing any settings there in the future... == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "Jeff Barnett" wrote in message ... I occasionally have a visitor that I allow to use one of our computers. I created Guest accounts for his use. I recently noticed that if he is the last one to use one of the computers that it will not enter a suspend state. I checked the power profile for the Guest user, set what I wanted, clicked okay, and got something like a not authorized message. Any way to fix power settings for the Guest account? I know I could ask this user to log out then select suspend from the Welcome Screen. If I could trust him to do that faithfully, I probably would have given him a regular account. Jeff Barnett |
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Guest account and power profile question
Tim, your suggestion sound great. Unfortunately, it was too good (and
sensible) to be true. I names the profile used by an admin account, MY-HOME-PROFILE. It did not show up as a choice for either the guest account or for a power user. For the record 'm running XP PRO SP3 using the Welcome Window (or whatever it's called) and simple file sharing. I tried to access the new profile through the power options in control panel and via desktop properties; neither showed the new profile. Any idea what might be going on? Jeff Barnett Tim Meddick wrote, On 6/14/2013 3:18 AM: Rather than changing the Guest account's privileges (something that was never designed to be done with the special 'Guest' account), instead, try this; Power profiles are what's known as"Global" - when applied, they are applied to the entire system. With the [special] limits placed on the 'Guest' account, it is not possible to create new 'power profiles' - So, instead, login as an Administrator-level user and create a new power-profile for the Guest account (you could call it "Guest's Power"). Then, when you are next in the Guest's account, you should simply be able to switch to it, using the Power Options Properties control panel extension. Also, you could use a third-party utility, like FreshUI, to restrict the Guest user from being able to access the Power Options control panel, and from changing any settings there in the future... == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "Jeff Barnett" wrote in message ... I occasionally have a visitor that I allow to use one of our computers. I created Guest accounts for his use. I recently noticed that if he is the last one to use one of the computers that it will not enter a suspend state. I checked the power profile for the Guest user, set what I wanted, clicked okay, and got something like a not authorized message. Any way to fix power settings for the Guest account? I know I could ask this user to log out then select suspend from the Welcome Screen. If I could trust him to do that faithfully, I probably would have given him a regular account. Jeff Barnett |
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