Red Button disappeared from Vista logon/welcome screen

[Retired Bill]

I don't know how or when it happened, but my restart/shutown option button in
the lower right hand corner of my Welcome screen disappeared?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

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

Run regedit and make the setting above

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[Retired Bill]

I found the answer later on in these posts: Go to Regedit and find
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon and
change the "ShutDownWithoutLogon" value from 0 to 1

 

[Retired Bill]

There was no "policies" in that location of my registry. See my further
answer how I solved it. You are giving the wrong advice.
Bill
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system]
"shutdownwithoutlogon"=dword:00000001

Run regedit and make the setting above

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Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP
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I don't know how or when it happened, but my restart/shutown option button
in
the lower right hand corner of my Welcome screen disappeared?

 

[Retired Bill]

I fixed it differently, see my reply to Mark Ferguson