I have not seen a central source for

Changing the Default Action of the Start Menu Power Button

from Sleep to Shutdown.

This is how I did it.

Note: I roll up all my installation software into install.wim

When it gets Decompressed, C:\Addons\Regedits has all of my registry tweaks.

No need to go looking for them and They install from the hard drive (faster).

and this is the reg file

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Power\User\PowerSchemes\8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c\4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347\a7066653-8d6c-40a8-910e-a1f54b84c7e5]
"ACSettingIndex"=dword:00000002
"DCSettingIndex"=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\User\PowerSchemes\8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c\4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347\a7066653-8d6c-40a8-910e-a1f54b84c7e5]
"ACSettingIndex"=dword:00000002
"DCSettingIndex"=dword:00000002

This has worked for me 100%

Ask if more info is needed...

Edited March 1, 200917 yr by Arrow22

Arrow, you are great! Been looking a while for doing this via such a easy way. No import/export and powercfg s*** Thanks man !