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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.
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.
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.