N0mad wrote:
> sanjacstudent12 wrote:
>
>> N0mad wrote:
>>
>>> 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??
>>
>> 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.
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.