Change 'Shutdown' options?

[Rick Corbett]

Is it possible to remove the 'Standby' option, leaving just 'Restart' and
'Shut Down'? Some of our users are putting the PC's into Standby mode (with
confidential info still open) by accidentally clicking on the wrong option.

 

[F Miller]

Rick opined:

-----Original Message-----
Is it possible to remove the 'Standby' option, leaving just 'Restart' and
'Shut Down'? Some of our users are putting the PC's into Standby mode (with
confidential info still open) by accidentally clicking

on the wrong option.


Hey Rick,

You could go into power options in the control panel,
select the advanced tab and check the box for 'use of
password when one comes out of standby'

F Miller

 

[Susan Lambert]

I created a shortcut on my desktop that just shuts down the computer. I got
it from PC World. Works great
shutdown.exe -s -t 0. The directions are below with some other switches you
may find useful.

Right-click on the Desktop, and from the pop-up menu click on New and then
on Shortcut. In the box under Type the location of the item: type
"c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe" (without the quotes) and click Next.
Click Finish to create the shortcut.

Right-click on the shutdown shortcut and click on Properties. The contents
of the Target box will be highlighted. Press the right arrow key to move
the cursor to the end of that line. Press the space bar once and type -s.
Now press the space bar again and type -t 0. Now click OK to finish the
shortcut.

The -s tells shutdown.exe to turn off the computer. Using -l will cause
shutdown.exe to log off, and -r tells shortcut.exe to reboot the computer.
The -t 0 sets the number of seconds before the computer turns off to zero so
the computer turns off immediately. You can set the -t number to any number
of seconds. For example, if you set the -t to 5, shutdown.exe places a
countdown on your Desktop and turns off your computer when the seconds
count down to zero.

 

[Rick Corbett]

Thanks but it I'm afraid it won't work in our workgroup environment. We
logon our users to the Windows XP Pro workstation automatically so all they
do is logon to the Novell file servers with their own account ID's and
passwords. As a result, we don't give our users the password for the local
workstation.

Rick

 

[Rick Corbett]

Susan,

Thanks but I think re-training 1200 users to use a desktop shutdown script
may add to the problem, not solve it. I was hoping there would be something
like a Group Policy setting in Administrative templates or a registry
setting that would just remove the 'Standby' option.

Rick

 

[Rick Corbett]

Thanks but, whilst this may work in a domain environment, it won't work in
our workgroup environment that authenticates to Novell 4.11 servers.

We autologon our users to the local Win XP Pro workstation before they logon
to their Novell file servers using their own ID's and passwords.

As a result, we don't let the users know the local workstation password.

I'm still looking for a way to prevent users putting their machines into a
standby state in the first place rather than protect what's on screen.

Rick

 

[Rick Corbett]

Susan,

Thanks but this would only be successful if we could remove the 'Start >
Shutdown' options altogether so users had no option but to use the desktop
shortcut.

We've stopped the use of 'hibernation' but I was hoping for a Group Policy
setting in Administrative templates or a registry tweak to remove the
'Standby' option.

Rick