Power Management and Other Problems of the Non-Administrator

Power management is a real problem for non-administrators on Windows XP, but there are other problems running as user. I was looking up the registry keys needed to allow users to change those power settings when I found this great blog:

The Non-Admin blog - running with least privilege on the desktop

Anyway, here is the power management solution as posted on that blog:

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.