Disable Standby and Restart Butons

[Hellooooooooo]

Hello everyuno,

I have a great little task to carryout. All of our XP pro laptops are about to have new software installed on them. As part of the lockdown settings, we have to remove the Standby and Restart Buttons from the Turn Off Computer Menu. Users will only beable to Shutdown the laptop. Does anyone know the location in the registry that I need to be looking at to do this?

Cheers.

Marty

 

[twiSSt]

Found this that might help:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307882&sd=tech

Otherwise I beleive you are going to have to edit the registry.

Found this that appears to address your question:

Open up regedit and navigate to

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\ACPI\



Add the Attributes value under this key (REG_DWORD).

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\ACPI\Parameters\Attributes

Set Attributes to 0x70 and reboot


Twist

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Everything will be OK in the end.
If it's not OK, then it's not the end

 

[twiSSt]

Before you try my other suggestions take a look in your power settings

Open the Control Panel, double click on "Power Options", select the "Hibernate" tab, then UNCHECK the "Enable Hibernation" box.

Twist

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Everything will be OK in the end.
If it's not OK, then it's not the end

 

[BadBigBen]

How to use Powercfg.exe to create a Group Policy object for power schemes in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/915160

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[linney]

Disable Standby

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/disablestandby.reg

I don't know if it is even possible to remove the restart button, even if you did that, there are many other ways to restart a computer, for example, from the Task Manager, or from a Command Prompt via the Shutdown command.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:&q="remove+restart"+shutdown&btnG=Search