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Sunday, March 11, 2007

How to change the power button in Vista to shut down your PC.

If you do not like to put your computer to sleep or would just rather have the power button in the Vista Start Menu shut down your computer you can follow this simple guide. Click Read more to see how!

1. Open the Start Menu
2. In the search box, write "Power Options" and open it.
3. Under the selected power plan, click "Change plan settings"
4. Click "Change advanced power settings"
5. Open "Power buttons and lid" and then "Start menu power button"
6. Change the setting to "Shut down" and click OK
The button in the Start Menu should now look different and shut down your computer!
You may close out of the Power Options window if it is still open.

posted by Peter at 8:52 PM

4 Comments:

  • Thanks for the tip! I've been trying to work out how to change this setting for a while now.

    Amazing to see how many settings are buried deep within vista.

    By Blogger Bobby, at 8:55 PM  

  • Thanks for the nice post!

    Free PS3

    By Blogger butlimous, at 3:05 PM  

  • also can be done through the control pane.

    open control panel. start typing "Power Button" in the search box. by the time you get to "power b" the first option in the results will be "Change what the power buttons do"

    By Blogger Nathan Novielli, at 3:06 PM  

  • Thanks for the tip

    By Blogger Praveen Rangineni, at 4:06 AM  

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