Win7 'Power Off' button

[Garry Russell]

Ah..now that makes good sense...

You can't have too many off buttons on W7

[emfrat]

First thing I do with any machine is disable all the clever power-saving and auto-sleep options - had too many disasters from those sources to trust a computer to make decisions.
What I was getting at was, to shut down I click the Start button and that brings up a Shut Down button, which also has a pop-up menu offering Restart, among other things like change user, lock and so on. Unfortunately, if you are in a hurry, it is all too easy to overshoot the Shutdown button and open the pop-up, and continuing the trajectory puts you right on the Restart option, and once you click that you are done for, except for that handy stop button

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MikeW

[DaveB]

Ah yes.. the old 'Start' 'Shutdown' trick I've not done that on the PC but I've slipped the odd time on the laptop. Thing is.. the laptop is different.. it's Vista and has different buttons

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DaveB

[GHD]

Clicking on "Shut down", shuts down immediately.

Clicking on the arrow to the right of the "Shut down" button gives further options:

[DaveB]

Yup.. I know that mate That bit IS the same as Vista although what the shutdown button does is slightly different.. perhaps because Vista knows it's on a laptop rather than a desktop.

I'm still jiggered as to why the soft power off is offered on the initial login page when you turn the pc on. Why would you turn it on if you want to turn it off again?? I also see the reasons why it's not on the wakeup login screen although for me.. it would be more useful there as I don't generally leave stuff open and get called away to a meeting while I'm at home This is my point.. why is it on the initial login screen (when you've just turned the pc on)? Is this the same page you get when it's not just gone to sleep but switch user/log off/lock and or restart has been hit? I don't mention sleep because I know it's not on the wakeup page after 'sleep'

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DaveB

[TSR2]

Its on the initial start up screen so as you can shut it down cleanly. An example being my tiny fingered Daughter who frequently manages to turn the PC on. If there was no shutdown option, I'd have to log on and then shutdown from there. It was the same in XP and Win'98 before it, possibly even '95 come to think of it.

[DaveB]

That's that answered If you switch it on by accident, you can turn it off again. They think of everything don't they BTW.. I've never used a login page on any incarnation of Windows except Vista and Win7

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DaveB

[GHD]

I boot straight into W7, no login screen.

[TSR2]

Yep, its horses for courses. I have a login screen so that SWMBO can't inadvertently delete stuff I'm working on. She saved a picture from the internet into my textures folder once and then decided she didn't need it any more, so deleted the folder

Lesson learned

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