Power settings - not global?

[Meson]

My parents have a Windows XP MCE machine with the welcome screen and fast user switching enabled.

If I got to the control panel and then power options to set the idle time required for standby, each user seems to have a separate settings? Shouldn't this be a global/administrator option?

Am I missing something here? Should I disable standby for all but one user?

[Nxion]

How many users are on that machine? If I am not mistaken, when you change something like power settings, it should change across user accounts. At lease they do in XP(I think).

[fiddledd]

A very late reply, but just in case you still haven't sorted it:

http://sdmsoftware.com/blog/2008/08/power_management_in_xp.html

[Meson]

How many users are on that machine? If I am not mistaken, when you change something like power settings, it should change across user accounts. At lease they do in XP(I think).

This is windows xp mce, and things do not change globally.

I had looked into gpedit.msc, but I will give this link a shot: http://sdmsoftware.com/blog/2008/08/...ent_in_xp.html

[Meson]

A very late reply, but just in case you still haven't sorted it:

http://sdmsoftware.com/blog/2008/08/power_management_in_xp.html

I installed the Group Policy Preferences on my computer but I can't seem to find anything. There isn't anything new in gpedit.msc and I don't know where to look for all the features this thing says it adds.