Shut Down Button

[Les Herrman]

You're welcome!

Been using that in XP for years. I do believe someone
else also posted those shortcuts here.

One of the things I have really warmed up to is the
convenience of Search from the Start Menu. It is easy
and fast. Plus, being able to execute it from the search
or right clicking it and adding it to Quick Launch or the
Start Menu is great.

-Michael

I used those shortcuts too untill I realized that in XP I could set my
keyboard Sleep button to shutdown instead of sleep.
So much easier to just press a button and shutdown.

In Vista you can't do that.

 

[Fernando]

Colin,
And then why they locked down features before beta testing for the
general public??
I think this power button topic here demostrates the average user
complains about the Shell team's implementation and "guesses", and there
are many other topics complaining about other shell implementations.

Colin Barnhorst escribió:

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

They do not have the general public do beta testing in any structured way.
They do release public betas of some things and do take comments and
suggestions, including bug reports.

Things like the button arrangement we are discussing go through a series of
usability studies in which MS monitors how folks tend to do things, and
through focus groups consisting of folks with typical user profiles. I
think MS is most likey spot on when they say how the vast majority of users
handle shutdowns, etc.

It just doesn't happen to accord with how I do things.

 

[Fernando]

Thanks. Anyway, it seems MS people doesn't take the right people in
order to run useability test

Colin Barnhorst escribió:

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Volunteer! Some tests can be done with a webcam watching you do your thing.

 

[ko van Zeeland]

It's for the same reason they pulled the option to password-protect

individual folders. IT admins don't want that stuff in the hands of
end-users. If the button were too easy to get to, the end users would
forever be shutting down and restarting their machines by accident.
(And wouldn't save their work when prompted either).

If you go to control center, classic view, you have a button Power options,
in there select change advanced power option dril down to startbar button,
click on that and change the default from sleep to shgutdown.

HTH

ko van Zeeland