Permissions issue with Thinkpad Power Manager

[Marc_G]

Hi folks,

My main account on my X61 is a standard (non-administrative) domain account. I've run into trouble with setting up a proper profile for the Power Manager software (I'm currently running 1.43, on XP Pro SP2).

The "New" and "Edit" buttons in profile management are grayed out.

If I log on as Administrator, the buttons are available there and I can create profiles. But these profiles are not available on my other account. I don't have the ability to promote my main (domain-based) account to Admin rights.

How does one set up profiles for non-administrative accounts?

Marc

[jdhurst]

It depends.

On an office machine, the administrator should do it.

On your own machine, where your daily account is a non-admin account, log in as admin, assign your user id with admin priviledges, log in as your daily account, change the profile, log out, remove the admin priviledges and check your work. ... JDH

[Marc_G]

Thanks JDH,

Since this is an office machine I guess I will have to bite the bullet and file the numerous forms to get an IT support person to look at this. I work in a biggish company with outsourced IT. They charge $$ just to file a request for anything.

I thought when I obtained the local Administrator password that I would be able to fix stuff like this. Sigh.

Marc