No Shutdown/Restart option for standard user.

[Mike]

I have some new computers I just setup. the problem I'm having is that these
computers will not display the shudown or restart option when an regular user
goes to shutdown it only had the logoff option. Unfortunatly this isn't the
Policy setting that removes that. I've looked in both policy keys for the
noclose option and it doesn't exist I even tried to add it and put in a 0.
This problem doesn't exist on an Admin account so I'm wondering if there is
anothe registry key that controls the shutdown options and maybe the users
don't have permissions to those keys. computer is fully up todate and has XP
SP3 on it. Thank You.

 

[Mike]

If they where then they could but I have 80+ other computers where the users
are not an admin and they can shutdown and restart. Unless you are talking
about in the registry somewhere. I just need to know where the module is
that controls the shutdown function in the registry that isn't part of the
policies.

 

[William R. Walsh]

Hi!

I would recommend looking at the Group Policy settings, as well as the Local
Security Policy console. I seem to remember seeing options governing who
could perform a shutdown/restart operation in one of those two places...most
likely the Local Security Policy location.

William

 

[Mike]

This isn't being affected by group policy since it is only affect 7 computers
and even with group policy there are 40 computers in the same group as these.
I have looked at the policies affecting the users and the computers and
there isn't anything that would disable this feature. Also the registry
doesn't have the noclose policy even there.

 

[Jason Larson]

As William suggested, you should double-check the Local Security Policy and
verify that the Policy "Shut down the system" has your standard users
included. By default, it should include Administrators, Backup Operators,
Power Users, and Users, so they SHOULD be in there, but that policy setting
is the one that will give the results you are seeing. It doesn't seem to
affect the noclose value, as that value stayed at 0 during my test, yet the
only option available when I pressed Shutdown was "Logoff" -- exactly the
symptom you are seeing.

Good Luck!
Jason