lost "Turn off computer" shortcut

[Steve T]

Used to have a shortcut in the bottom left area of the Welcome Screen to
turn off the computer. Now I have to login, click Start and then select Turn
Off Computer. How do I get the turn off option back at the Welcome Screen?
Thanks, Steve T.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Used to have a shortcut in the bottom left area of the Welcome Screen to
turn off the computer.

What freakin' use would THAT BE? I mean, you're starting up, so when
the Welcome Screen appears, you wanna SHUT DOWN??

Now I have to login, click Start and then select Turn
Off Computer.

OH! WHATTA PAIN IN THE ASS THAT MUST BE, BUCKO!!!

 

[Steve T]

One PC, two users, when one is done he or she logs off to the Welcome
Screen. When the next User wants to use the PC, they log on. No need to get
Grumpy! Steve T.

 

[Claymore]

One PC, two users, when one is done he or she logs off to the Welcome
Screen. When the next User wants to use the PC, they log on. No need to get







- Show quoted text -

Hello Steve,

Copy the text below between the dotted lines, but not the dotted lines
themselves. Open Notepad and paste it in. Save the result in a
suitable location as shutdown.reg - making sure that the default .txt
extension doesn't appear in the file name (Save as type = All Files).
Double-click on the saved .reg file to merge the contents.
Restart or Logoff/on

----------------------------------------------------------------

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies
\system]
"shutdownwithoutlogon"=dword:00000001

----------------------------------------------------------------

 

[Curt Christianson]

Steve,

For "our" Uncle Grumpy, there most *definitely* is a need!

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Curt

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| One PC, two users, when one is done he or she logs off to the Welcome
| Screen. When the next User wants to use the PC, they log on. No need to
get
| Grumpy! Steve T.
| | >
| >>Used to have a shortcut in the bottom left area of the Welcome Screen to
| >>turn off the computer.
| >
| > What freakin' use would THAT BE? I mean, you're starting up, so when
| > the Welcome Screen appears, you wanna SHUT DOWN??
| >
| >>Now I have to login, click Start and then select Turn
| >>Off Computer.
| >
| > OH! WHATTA PAIN IN THE ASS THAT MUST BE, BUCKO!!!
| >
|
|

 

[Steve T]

Thanks Claymore but it didn't work. The window said the change was accepted.
Re-booted, logged on and then off back to Welcome Screen but no option to
turn off computer appears. Steve T.

 

[Steve T]

Claymore, these are the values I have in the registry location you provided:

Name Type Data
Default REG_SZ value not set
dontdisplaylastus.. REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0)
legalnoticecaption REG_SZ
legalnoticetext REG_SZ
undockwithoutlogon REG_DWORD 0x00000001 (1)

Steve T.

 

[Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]]

Go back to the same Registry key indicated. Right click in a blank area of
the right pane, select New, Dword value. Name it shutdownwithoutlogon.
Double click it and set its value to 1. You may need to reboot.

--
Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart
Display\Security
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com

 

[Guest]

Hello Steve.

I have studied most of the MS-DOS commands, and I know how they can help you.

1. On the computer with the lost shortcut, open Notepad by going to Start >
Run and then type in 'notepad'.

2. In notepad, type in the following code:
----------------
@echo off
echo Shutting down the computer...
shutdown -s
----------------
This creates a command to shutdown the computer.

3. Save the file to a convenient location on your computer. (Such as the
desktop.)
4. To test it, save all work, close all programs and open the file.

If you can shut down the computer (not just log off) then it is working.

However, a minor adjustment can create a restart command, or tell the
computer to log off.

Here are the variations:

shutdown...
-I Display GUI interface, must be the first option.
-L Log off (cannot be used with -m option)
-S Shutdown the computer.
-R Shutdown and restart the computer.
-A Abort a system shutdown
-T XX Set timeout for shutdown to XX seconds
-C "comment" Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters)
-F Forces running applications to close with warning.

Hope this can help with some problems.

John.

 

[Guest]

Ooops! Revised:

3. Save the file to a convenient location on your computer. (Such as the
desktop.)

Should be:

"3. On notepad click File > Save As...
3a. Select a convenient location such as the desktop
3b. In the "Name" text box, type in "Shutdown Computer.bat" without
quotas.
3c. In the "File Type" box, select "All Files (*.*)".
3d. In the "Encoding" box, select "ANSI".
3e. Click Save."

Please make sure to complete above instructions.

John.

 

[Steve T]

Thanks Doug! Your fix worked. Ironic, but after my last post last night; I
went to your site looking for a fix. Picked up a couple related to Tweakui.
Thanks again, Steve T.
"BinaryConverted"

 

[Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]]

You're welcome

--
Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart
Display\Security
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com