DigeratiPrime Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.htmlI RTFA and I completely agree with it, I have thought exactly the same thing before. Anyone have a different idea? I would actually like to modify the shortcuts for those buttons in the start menu to do exactly what this article concludes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 Restart can be eliminated. 95% of the time you need this it's because of an installation which prompted you to restart, anyway. For the other cases, you can just turn the power off and then turn it on again. Another option goes away. Turning the power off and then on again is not good for the hardware...I'd get rid of all the redundant items on the start menu and have a single "Shut Down..." option like previous versions did. Then a dialog with a drop-down box, just like WinXP did. I find nothing wrong with how XP (and the previous versions) did it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spooky Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 Seems I just read this in a certain group somewhere Anyway, theres supposed to be a method via the registry - or so i've been told, to change this. I'm trying to run down the entries as they don't normally exist. If I run across something i'll let you know. BTW, those aren't really shortcuts I don't think.http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.htmlI RTFA and I completely agree with it, I have thought exactly the same thing before. Anyone have a different idea? I would actually like to modify the shortcuts for those buttons in the start menu to do exactly what this article concludes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marthax Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 (edited) I actually thought I found something really great in gpedit, when I realised that it wasn't so great after all. In Administrative Templates -> Start Menu and Taskbar, there is an option called "Remove and prevent access to the Shut Down, Restart, Sleep, and Hibernate commands". I can't figure out why you'd like to remove the most important commands (shutdown and restart) and leave something unnecessary as "Lock the computer" and "Switch user"? Why not create a policy that removes everything BUT shutdown and restart or even better, one policy for each button. That way we could all pick our favorites. Nice going MS... Edited November 30, 2006 by Marthax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 (edited) [snipped]Nice going MS...Unknown are the ways of M$ Edited November 30, 2006 by nitroshift Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marthax Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 Yes indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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