Add Shutdown to lock screen?

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  1. Posts : 826
    Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit SP1
       #11

    Isn't it that way for security reasons? Say I went away on lunch break while my computer was... rendering? it would be very troublesome if someone could just walk up and one click shut down my computer.

    alphanumeric said:
    leipricon, I see what you mean. If I lock my desktop nothing happens if you press the power button and you have to click the switch user button to get to the on screen shut down button. I don't see an easy way around it either. I almost never lock my desktop so its not a big deal for me. Sorry I couldn't help.
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  2. Posts : 4,466
    Windows 10 Education 64 bit
       #12

    Rei Tumult said:
    Isn't it that way for security reasons? Say I went away on lunch break while my computer was... rendering? it would be very troublesome if someone could just walk up and one click shut down my computer.
    You can do it anyway if you really wanted to. If you hold the power button down for 4 seconds the BIOS function will turn the power supply off, so it doesn't stop anybody from turning your PC off. I'm sure its done that way for a reason though. The other annoying thing is even if you only have the one user account, you can't turn off fast user switching in windows 7. You can in windows XP even if you have more than one user account setup. I never use fast user switching.

    My spare PC which is running XP is in my bedroom. Quit often I will lay in bed and listen to music on that PC. I turn my monitor off. When I'm done for the night I just click the power button and turn off the speakers. A whole lot easier that turning the monitor back on and going though the start menu to shut down. It is a nice feature.
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  3. Posts : 1
    windows7
       #13

    Even switching user does not show a power option from a locked screen. I had the problem recently with a customers screen repair, I tested out the screen before putting it all together, then the hardware power button only put it to sleep and the customer had put the computer to hibernate. So I had to finish the job while the computer was in a sleep state.
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  4. Posts : 138
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
       #14

    Two years later + the year already mentioned. No solution yet? I can hold the power button for four seconds but when I turn the computer back it, it gives the "Windows did not shut down successfully" message any time I hold the power button at the lock screen. I don't want to have to type in my password just to shut the machine down.
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  5. Posts : 10,485
    W7 Pro SP1 64bit
       #15

    Sylveon Fetish said:
    Two years later + the year already mentioned. No solution yet?...
    There won't be a solution unless Microsoft decides to change this. Any "solution" that users created would probably be a security issue.


    Sylveon Fetish said:
    I can hold the power button for four seconds...
    Don't do that. It is not good for the OS.


    Sylveon Fetish said:
    I don't want to have to type in my password just to shut the machine down.
    What happens if you follow the steps in post #2? The steps in that post do not mention entering in a password.
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