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Windows 7 - Can I Make The Shutdown Button ASK to shut down?
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| 06-21-2009 | #1 |
| | Can I Make The Shutdown Button ASK to shut down? If I press the shutdown button, windows 7 shuts down. Great, fine... only not really. If I accidently press the button, it shuts down. Can I make it ASK if I really want to shut down? That was something I liked about XP. You got to confirm that you meant to press that button if you pressed it. I pressed it and the windows 7 one several times. Very annoyign on the windows 7 end. Can't seem to stop the shutdown process once you press it. |
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| 06-21-2009 | #2 |
| | How would you accidentally press the button if you have to open start menu, then move your mouse at the bottom right corner. |
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| 06-21-2009 | #3 |
| | just change it to something else, like lock, to prevent accidents. [taskbar properties-> start menu] |
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| 06-21-2009 | #4 |
| | You'd be amazed at how you can miss and click on the damned thing. 
Quote: Originally Posted by John Henry  How would you accidentally press the button if you have to open start menu, then move your mouse at the bottom right corner. |
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| 06-21-2009 | #5 |
| | Possible, but also reduces the effectiveness of the button. Instead of a nice big button you have to cilck on the tiny arrow button next to it. Not good for in a hurry.
Quote: Originally Posted by arkhi just change it to something else, like lock, to prevent accidents. [taskbar properties-> start menu] |
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| 06-21-2009 | #6 |
| | Hello Tannim, You could also create a shutdown shortcut that has a time delay for how long you want so that you could use an abort shortcut if needed to abort the shutdown within the delay time that you specify. Hope this helps, Shawn |
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| 06-21-2009 | #7 |
| | Change the Power button to Lock LOL, Brink beat me to this! But here's yet another option for you...  I'd just change the button to Lock. When you do this all it does it close to the desktop like fast user switching so you can recover back to full operations in just a second without loosing any work or documents you might have up & running! Rightclick the Power button, then click Properties, then click the pulldown menu arrow & choose Lock, then click apply.  Then when you want to shut down the computer do it on the computer itself & use the powerbutton on the case or tower. |
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| 07-15-2009 | #8 |
| | I just found it, quite by accident. taskkill /im explorer.exe will bring up the old school shut down menu - Legacy Shutdown Dialog I am exploring how to actually use this on the start menu Last edited by Antman; 07-15-2009 at 08:55 AM.. |
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| 07-15-2009 | #9 |
| | Nice reminder Antman. You can also press Alt+F4 from the desktop for this as well. Last edited by Brink; 07-16-2009 at 08:33 AM.. |
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| 07-15-2009 | #10 |
| | I once worked on an Olivetti A7 computer, sort of a desk shaped thing with a big keyboard, and the power shutdown was a one-inch square button right next to the Return key   ... |
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