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permission denied by powercfg on win7 while an administrator

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Mar 15, 20266569 views
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I am trying to fix a friends computer which is constantly going to sleep on them and sometimes not waking up. Trying to launch power configuration from the control panel does nothing, and launching powercfg.cpl from the command line results in no output or action. I have tried powercfg /RestoreDefa…

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Fix for: permission denied by powercfg on win7 while an administrator

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The power configuration data is stored in the Registry, but all power management is done through the Power service, not with direct Registry access. To determine whether a given user has the authority to perform a power-related operation, the Power …

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