{"id":1959,"date":"2011-03-14T10:41:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T10:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2011-03-14T10:41:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T10:41:54","slug":"ways-to-change-power-scheme-and-others-on-guest-account-(xp)","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1959","title":{"rendered":"Ways to Change Power Scheme and others on Guest Account (XP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nDoing a Sunday School Projector project at CCCNY, I stumbled upon this problem.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSolution:\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUse the command <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc748940%28WS.10%29.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">powercfg.exe<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTwo other solutions found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.experts-exchange.com\/OS\/Microsoft_Operating_Systems\/Windows\/XP\/Q_20918300.html\" target=\"_blank\">web<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n1. Gemarti:<span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em><span>I never actually tried this, but it should work:<br \/>\nElevate the <span>guest<\/span> <span>account<\/span> to administrator. Log on as <span>guest<\/span>. Make the <span>power<\/span> option changes and then demote the <span>guest<\/span> <span>account<\/span> back to its original state. Just make sure you note what user group <span>Guest<\/span> was originally in. I have the <span>guest<\/span> <span>account<\/span> disabled on my machines, so I don't remember what group it is originally in. <\/p>\n<p>You should be able to promote and demote the <span>guest<\/span> <span>account<\/span> &nbsp;logged on as administrator user the lusrmgr.msc snap-in: <\/p>\n<p>START | RUN | LUSRMGR.MSC<\/span><\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n2. Dabzov:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em><span>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>I used a different<br \/>\npath, but you led me to the solution. Note - &nbsp;Priviledges for user in<br \/>\nmore than one group defaults to group with lowest priviledges. <\/p>\n<p>While logged on a s Administrator:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; |start|settings|control panel|administrative tools|computer management|Local users and groups|groups<\/p>\n<p>1. click on &quot;<span>guest<\/span>&quot; and remove userGuest form &nbsp;groupGuests (apply\/OK)<\/p>\n<p>2. Click on &quot;Administrators&quot; and add userGuest to groupAdministrators (apply \/ OK)<\/p>\n<p>3. Log off Administrator (to save settings)<\/p>\n<p>4. Log onto <span>Guest<\/span><\/p>\n<p>5. |Start|Settings|control panel|<span>power<\/span> options|<\/p>\n<p>6. Change <span>Power<\/span> Settings|apply|OK|<\/p>\n<p>7. Log off <span>Guest<\/span><\/p>\n<p>8. Log onto administrator<\/p>\n<p>9.|start|settings|control panel|administrative tools|computer management|Local users and groups|groups<\/p>\n<p><span>10<\/span>. remove userGuest from groupAdministrators<\/p>\n<p>11. Add userGuest to groupGuests<\/p>\n<p>12. log off Administrator <\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the detail, but I will be directing others to this chain of entries.<\/p>\n<p>thnaks again<br \/>\ndave<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing a Sunday School Projector project at CCCNY, I stumbled upon this problem. Solution: Use the command powercfg.exe. Two other solutions found on the web: 1. Gemarti: I never actually tried this, but it should work: Elevate the guest account &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1959\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}