shutdown options

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N0mad

Is there a way to manage the options you get when you click start, then
shutdown? You can choose from the pull down menu..log off user, shutdown,
restart, stand by. I want to set it to always say shutdown. I searched thru
the registry but didn't find anything that I felt sure about. Any ideas??
 
A desktop shortcut wouldn't work for the situation I need this for. I'm
hoping there is a way to simply set the option to always be "shutdown" by
default.
 
N0mad said:
A desktop shortcut wouldn't work for the situation I need this for.
I'm hoping there is a way to simply set the option to always be
"shutdown" by default.
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Any particular why a shortcut won't work? If you use...

C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -s -t 00

as the shortcut's target, clicking the shortcut will always shut down
without any delay. Easier than clicking "Start", "Turn off computer...".

dadiOH
 
Are you wanting to restrict users from having other shutdown options? If so,
is this a networked setting or on one machine?
 
This is a school setting. The user is locked into an application and cannot
get to the desktop or other items in the Start menu. Just shutdown/restart
buttons. XP Pro SP3 on a Novell network. It doesn't always stay the same as
the last time used. That's what I thought at first but it changes. I just
want the user to be able to shutdown the comp when finished using it, not
restart or log off etc.
 
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N0mad said:
This is a school setting. The user is locked into an application and
cannot
get to the desktop or other items in the Start menu. Just
shutdown/restart
buttons. XP Pro SP3 on a Novell network. It doesn't always stay the same
as
the last time used. That's what I thought at first but it changes. I
just
want the user to be able to shutdown the comp when finished using it, not
restart or log off etc.
Click to expand...
 
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N0mad said:
Is there a way to manage the options you get when you click
start, then shutdown? You can choose from the pull down
menu..log off user, shutdown, restart, stand by. I want to
set it to always say shutdown. I searched thru the
registry but didn't find anything that I felt sure about.
Any ideas??
Click to expand...

Just create an icon and have it run shutdown.exe. /? as usual gives the
switches for shutdown. There is even a way to force a shutdown if it's
unattended.
Twayne
 
In
N0mad said:
A desktop shortcut wouldn't work for the situation I need
this for. I'm hoping there is a way to simply set the
option to always be "shutdown" by default.
Click to expand...

How so? It seems shutdown is shutdown. A shortcut gives you a 1-click access
to it. I can't imagine any reason to have to go the start; shutdown; etc.
route. Please educate me?

Twayne
 
N0mad said:
A desktop shortcut wouldn't work for the situation I need this for. I'm
hoping there is a way to simply set the option to always be "shutdown" by
default.
Click to expand...

Oh, you intend on doing something nasty to another user. Since you don't
want to disclose your intention, or even spend the time to make up a story,
we can contrive whatever might be your intention. It doesn't look like you
intend to be nice.

The shortcut mentioned could be on the desktop, in a toolbar in the Windows
taskbar (or dragged out of the taskbar to snap to any side of the screen),
or even used by a programmable key on your keyboard. In fact, many
keyboards have a Sleep button. Go into Power Options in Control Panel and
configure the Sleep button on your keyboard to do a shutdown. One keypress
and Windows gets shutdown. No clicking on buttons and navigating menus and
dialogs to eventually select to a shutdown.
 
N0mad said:
This is a school setting. The user is locked into an application and
cannot get to the desktop or other items in the Start menu. Just
shutdown/restart buttons. XP Pro SP3 on a Novell network. It doesn't
always stay the same as the last time used. That's what I thought at
first but it changes. I just want the user to be able to shutdown the
comp when finished using it, not restart or log off etc.
Click to expand...

Get Microsoft's TweakUI powertoy. To remove the logoff selection, go to the
Explorer node and disable the "Allow logoff on Start menu". This will
eliminate the Logoff entry both under the Start menu and in the Shutdown
Windows dialog. If you cannot install TweakUI on this school host, use it
on your own while monitoring for changes (like using InstallWatch or
RegMon), not what registry item got changed, and then apply it to the school
host.

For the other entries, well, Google still works:

http://www.google.com/search?q=+remove++restart++shutdown+dialog

which found:

http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-r...-options-from-start-menu-shutdown-dialog-box/

Note that is a per-user policy setting. You didn't mention if all the users
are sharing the same Windows account. If not, you'll have to log onto each
account to make this change, or find its parent residing under the
HKEY_USERS registry hive under the SID for each account (that has been
logged on at least once to create the subkey for the account). For the
non-Home editions of Windows, gpedit.msc lets you edit many policies;
however, I didn't see this one (but I only twice scanned through all the
settings so it might be there but then gpedit doesn't list all policies).

Since these are policy settings, and if the school host is on a domain, you
can push this policy when the user logs in. I later found the KB article at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292504 that mentions the NoClose policy.

If the web article mentioned above is correct, you lose the restart and
logoff entries but you also lose the shutdown entry. So you would have to
add a shortcut as mentioned in the other replies to run the shutdown.exe
program. Or, instead of using a shortcut, you could go into the Power
Options applet in Control Panel and define the Power button (on the system
case) to perform a shutdown.
 
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