How to enable prompt to confirm shutdown/restart?

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Eric Fortier

Hey all,

Is there a way to enable the prompt to confirm a logoff/restart/shutdown/...
whatever action? I accidentally shutdown the computer instead of selecting
Sleep the first time I had Vista, and I just did it again today.

Very annoying! Is there a way to enable the good old prompt?

Thanks!
 
I wasn't able to find anything in the Group Policy Editor, maybe I am not
looking right. But the only work around I can find so far is to enable the
Windows Classic menu. Of course you will loose the new Start menu options.
 
I wasn't able to find anything in the Group Policy Editor, maybe I am not
looking right. But the only work around I can find so far is to enable the
Windows Classic menu. Of course you will loose the new Start menu options.
Click to expand...

To hell with the prompt then, I can't live without the new start menu!

I also assumed there was something in the policies, but I was equally unable to
find anything. Way too much stuff in there ;)

Thanks for your reply, Andre.
 
Hi Eric,

Open Notepad. Copy the following line, and paste it into Notepad:


(new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application")).ShutdownWindows();


Save the file as ShutdownDialogBox.js or whatever, but it must have the .js
extension. You can store the file anywhere you want, say, System32. Once
stored, right click on it, and, using Send To, send it to the Desktop
(create shortcut). On the desktop, rename the shortcut "Shutdown...". You
can then change the icon through the shortcut's properties (shell32.dll has
the official Classic Shutdown... icon: the red square with a circle in it).
If you want it in your Start Menu, drag it over the Start button, wait for
the Menu to open, and drop it among the pinned shortcuts. You now have a
Shutdown Dialog Box, à la XP.

Hope this helps,
Dean
 
If you had posted here directly, instead of through another news group, you
may have received the help you were seeking.



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Richard Urban
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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Hi IAF--

I be all confused. This here is a newsgroup--the old usenet. It can be
accessed many ways including the slow clunky MSFT HTML interface or much
better via NNTP newsreaders via OE in XP and Win Mail in Vista, and some
pretty elegant 3rd parties. I don't think it is a page you book mark. Most
importantly I don't see the issue anywhere that you say you waited for help
on. Could you please post it here?

CH
 
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