Windows 10: How do I disable some device-wide settings in Windows 10?

I have 2 Windows 10 desktop PC user account, my wife has the standard account, and I have the admin account.


I notice that some settings seems to be shared between us, but this are somewhat odd settings that we seem to share. I assume it's because Windows 10 OS is sometimes installed on a tablet.


1. Screen Sleep Time Setting: I set the screen to sleep after five minutes as I only need the screen on when I'm actually typing something on the PC. My wife needs the screen to stay on way longer than five minutes as she uses the PC to study. For some reason, everytime she changes her account's sleep time, it also changes my account's sleep time. She changes it to 30 minutes, my settings changes to 30 minutes, I change it back, her's changes too.


2. Volume Level: Very much like with #1, changes in another account pretty much changes all account's volume level.


There could be other settings we share but this is the two I noticed so far. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read my little problem.

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Creative X-Fi Soundcards and Windows 10 Fall Creators Update 1709 = Complete Disaster / Not Working

Thank you for trying to help , i did tried your suggestion but it did not work :/ , nothing seems to make it work on Windows 10 Fall Creators Update 1709. In the meantime i have bought a new SoundBlasterX AE-5 and it did installed flawlessly , no problems whatsoever. it is up to Creative ( drivers ) and Microsoft ( bug fix ) to fix this huge bugs with Audio.

Kind Regards: Chispy

 

need help with windows 10 missing desktop problem

You can disable tablet mode in settings

Disabling Tablet Mode :

• Go to the Tablet Mode tab under Settings -> System -> Tablet Mode
• Toggle the "make Windows more touch friendly" option off.
• Select whether the device switches modes automatically ->change to Dont Ask/Don't Switch.

 

Creative X-Fi Soundcards and Windows 10 Fall Creators Update 1709 = Complete Disaster / Not Working

Any Windows update breaks my Creative sound drivers. Best way for me is to disable it via group policy:

• Go to Run –> gpedit.msc
• In the Group Policy Editor, go to Computer Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> System –> Device Installation –> Device Installation Restrictions
• In the right hand pane, select “Prevent installation of devices not described by other policy settings” and set it to Enabled.

Once that's done, uninstall the driver Windows put in there and install the correct one.