Windows 7 - Its funny what you get used to

swarfega · 03-22-2009

I had to fix something on mums computer which runs XP, I couldnt find anything about restarting the computer so I looked at the options on the start menu and all there was was Log off and Turn off your computer.

So it was with some trepidation that I chose turn off your computer and sure enough a box came up with an option to restart. I can understand people getting confused and concerned at chosing turn off your computer. Its not the most obvious place to look for restart.

garysgold · 03-22-2009

Yea, the old way. W2K was like that too. An extra click to shutdown, a couple extra to reboot. I like the menu in Vista/Seven better.

Gary

Barman58 · 03-22-2009

I always thought the confusion wasn't helped by having to press a button marked start to shut down

Joan Archer · 03-22-2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Barman58

I always thought the confusion wasn't helped by having to press a button marked start to shut down

Yes I think that caused a lot of shouting from people when they first saw that, perhaps Microsoft thought it was logical that you'd want to Start to Shutdown

Barman58 · 03-22-2009

Hello Joan,

I think what it was was that they paid Mick Jagger so much to use "Start Me Up" for the promo of Windows 95 that they felt they had to keep it in XP to get their money's worth.

Maybe that's the real reason why XP's lasted so long, and it still pops up as the tooltip in 7

swarfega · 03-22-2009

Perhaps they should call it Home rather than Start.

DocBrown · 03-22-2009

I vaguely remember somebody created a Quick Shutdown Icon back for Win98!!

johngalt · 03-22-2009

You can easily create a quick shutdown icon for most versions of windows - it's pretty easy, as versions of windows based on NT used the executable shutdown.exe with parameters to select between shutdown and restart, and versions of windows not based on NT were able to do it through a shell menu item....

Ahh, here it is - http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/shutcut.php

Beginning · 03-22-2009

Quote: Originally Posted by johngalt

You can easily create a quick shutdown icon for most versions of windows - it's pretty easy, as versions of windows based on NT used the executable shutdown.exe with parameters to select between shutdown and restart, and versions of windows not based on NT were able to do it through a shell menu item....

Ahh, here it is - Shutdown & Restart Shortcuts

Very cool site.. I knew it was out there but couldn't for the life of me remember...

Yup I've used some of those switches for years. Thanks for the link.

Joan Archer · 03-22-2009

Are you a member of AumHa as well John, you can pick up some good tips from them