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My first tip was how to change the behavior of the power button. The default is to Sleep, but I prefer to actually Shut Down. It’s only seven tips later, and I’ve already got a different way to do this, mostly because it’s a few steps quicker.
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Open the Start Menu and click on Control Panel
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Click on System Maintenance
- Notice under Power Options there is a link directly to Change what the power buttons do. Click on it.
- You get the option for When I press the power button:, which has a drop-down containing Do nothing, Sleep, Hibernate and Shut Down. I, of course, choose Shut Down.
- Then, just click Save Changes, close the open windows, and your finished!
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Comments
Paul
Dec 19, 2006 at 9:50 am
I have yet to find a way to change the default action of the power button to “restart.” I never shut down, but I often restart as I dual boot between Vista and XP.
jpfieber
Dec 19, 2006 at 10:31 am
Good point. They have restart as an option in the Start Menu ‘Shut Down’ menu, but not as a pickable option in the configuration of the Power Button. A quick Google didn’t turn up anyone with knowledge of a hidden registry setting.
Bob T
May 21, 2007 at 7:49 pm
Great tip. Have you found any way to make Vista prompt to confirm shutdown, rather than just “doing it”?
Joe
May 22, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Nope. The closest I’ve seen is to click on the taskbar, then press ALT+F4, which will open the traditional shutdown menu.
Bozzl
Jul 24, 2007 at 1:38 am
Make a shortcut with “shutdown -r -t 0″ and place it on your quickstart-bar (0 is zero and without “)
“-s” shuts down and “-l” logs off.
I use also a shortcut to hibernate:
“%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Hibernate”
Works perfect… I use it since 1900
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