Classic Start Menu Shutdown/Restart default choice

[guitarzan]

In XP, with the Welcome Screen turned off, if you click Start --> Shutdown, the next selection you make (Restart, Shutdown, etc) is remembered. That is, if you select "Restart", the next time you go to that screen, "Restart" is the default option.

In Vista, using Classic Start Menu, when I click Start --> Shutdown and change the selection from "Shutdown" to "Restart" and reboot, the next time I go back "Shutdown" is still the default.

Any way to change this behavior so it remembers the last selection? Or at least force it to choose "Restart" by default?

 

[linney]

It may be a "by design" that you can't set it for restart in Classic View? The common workaround seems to be creating a Shortcut for the restart option, see link.

How to change Vista default of "Shutdown" to "Restart" instead?

http://www.3dgameman.com/forums//showthread.php?t=55557

 

[guitarzan]

Weird that they changed the behavior... thanks for confirming for me, linney.