Giving non-Administrators permission to change Power Settings

When you have users who would like to change their power settings to control standby and such, and they are not an administrator, you need to give them certain permissions in the Registry.

• Run Regedit.exe as an administrator
• Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Controls Folder\PowerCfg
• Right-click on the “GlobalPowerPolicy” key and choose “Permissions”.
• Click on the “Advanced” button.
• Click “Add”.
• Type INTERACTIVE and click “Check names”, then OK.
• Check the “Set value” and “Create Subkey” checkboxes in the “Allow” column, and click OK, then OK, then OK.
• Do the same thing with the “PowerPolicies” key.