Customizing Shutdown menu

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Lynda

A user would like to have the Shutdown, Restart and
Hibernate buttons displayed instead of the menu that
selects the option you would like to do. How do I get the
buttons to display? We are on a network domain here so
I'm not sure if it is an enforced policy.

Thanks.
 
Hi

Have a word with your Administrator to see if it is possible.

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| A user would like to have the Shutdown, Restart and
| Hibernate buttons displayed instead of the menu that
| selects the option you would like to do. How do I get the
| buttons to display? We are on a network domain here so
| I'm not sure if it is an enforced policy.
|
| Thanks.
 
Lynda--

One way to get the equivalant done or icons to represent each of those
buttons and more options is to use one of Karen Kenworthy's excellent power
tools called *Karen's Show Stopper* which allows you to create shortcut
icons for each of these functions including Shutdown, Power Off,
Restart/Reboot, Logoff Current Users, Suspend (Leave Power On), Hibernate
(Power Off), Force (Don't Wait for Other Programs to End). You can *save
shortcut icons for any of these options*:

http://www.karenware.com/newsletters/2003/2003-01-28.asp

You can download Showstopper and other of her Karen's Powertools here:

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/powertools.asp
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Also a nice list of shutdown options was posted here on March 11, 2004 by
MVP Torjier Bakken:

Create a shortcut to the file %windir%\system32\shutdown.exe and add
the following parameters:

-s -t 0

Note that shutdown.exe often has a bad habit of ending up in "It is now safe
to turn of your computer" message when you do a shutdown.

Some other solutions (free) that does not have this problem:

A)
You can use a vbscript to do a shutdown:
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

B)
PsShutdown.exe in the free PsTools suite
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml

C)
Wizmo.exe
http://grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm

D)
Budja
http://www.budja.com/shutdown/

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torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page
Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/default.mspx

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Chad Harris

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