what did I do wrong importing a power scheme?

[Guest SlickRCBD]

I asked this on the other Microsoft forum and got a cop out of "go ask over here", so I'm reposting it here.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-hardware/what-did-i-do-wrong-importing-a-power-scheme/0cdab994-a035-4c22-9cde-9b775ecb2686#last

The user "swestee" asked me to create a new time in the available power schemes. I wanted to see if I could automate copying power profiles using the import and export and eventually a batch file, and used this as a test case after having her put a temporary password on her account for me. Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work. What did I do wrong?

D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>powercfg /e "3 minutes"

 

D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>powercfg /e "3 minutes" /file "3 minutes.pow"

 

(copy files to user account, abusing admin privileges to access her folder)

* * * * switch user * * * *

 

D:\Documents and Settings\swestee>copy "3 minutes.pow" 3min.pow

1 file(s) copied.

 

D:\Documents and Settings\swestee>dir

Volume in drive D has no label.

Volume Serial Number is 1EF1-0C57

 

Directory of D:\Documents and Settings\swestee

 

08/31/2011 04:44 PM .

08/31/2011 04:44 PM ..

08/27/2011 11:44 AM Start Menu

08/31/2011 04:45 PM My Documents

08/31/2011 04:45 PM Favorites

08/27/2011 11:44 AM Desktop

03/27/2012 04:11 PM 8,403 powercfg.hlp

03/27/2012 04:16 PM 300 SCHEME.POW

03/27/2012 04:21 PM 300 3 minutes.pow

03/27/2012 04:25 PM 300 3min.pow

4 File(s) 9,303 bytes

6 Dir(s) 6,025,363,456 bytes free

 

D:\Documents and Settings\swestee>powercfg /i "3 minutes" /file 3min.pow

Scheme Not Found

 

D:\Documents and Settings\swestee>powercfg /IMPORT "3 minutes" /file 3min.pow

Scheme Not Found

 

D:\Documents and Settings\swestee>powercfg /IMPORT ThreeMinutes /file 3min.pow

Scheme Not Found

 

D:\Documents and Settings\swestee>powercfg /IMPORT Three /file 3min.pow

Scheme Not Found

 

D:\Documents and Settings\swestee>powercfg /IMPORT Three /file .\3min.pow

Scheme Not Found

 

D:\Documents and Settings\swestee>powercfg /IMPORT Three

Scheme Not Found

 

D:\Documents and Settings\swestee>

Please note that any future attempts will be made with my user account, Slick.

 

Continue reading...