Saturday, 15 February 2014

windows - Can I override a group policy setting as a machine admin? -


Group Policy prevents many configuration settings on my Windows 7 / Vista machines. Because of my domain account local administrator group on these boxes Is there a way to override it locally?

For example, the GP prevents power management from changing the option "Turn off the display" (even if it also fails to convert from CMD: POWERCFG -X -monitor-timeout-ac 60 => "An unexpected error has occurred. Unable to perform the operation. You do not have permission to perform this operation.")

Even when signing with a local account and domain Account, it is not possible to change the setting now.

While @BKKDV is correct, there are several ways around it.

For example, since you have Admin rights, you can not change specific policy related registry keys (eg. HKLM \ SOFTWARE \ Policies \ Microsoft ...) such as System Account Denying to write), but you can still do

Alternatively, it's been a while, but I've helped a bit called Kilpail.XA (see for information and possible downloads), which at least temporarily overrides the GPO settings. Will allow. (Note, though, I do not know how well it works on Vista and Win7, with very different implementations of the registry.)


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