title: Can I override a group policy setting as a machine admin?
body: <p>Group policy prevents several configuration settings on my Windows 7 / Vista machines. Since my domain account is a member of the local Administrators group on these boxes, is there still a way to override them locally?</p>
  
  <p>For instance, GP prevents changing the power management option "Turn off the display" (even changing it from cmd fails: POWERCFG -X -monitor-timeout-ac 60  => "An unexpected error condition has occurred.  Unable to perform operation.  You may not have permission to perform this operation.")</p>
  
  <p>Even when logging on with a local account and not the domain account, it's not possible to change the setting anymore ..</p>