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  • Windows 7 Tips

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    Create Shutdown / Restart / Lock Icons in Windows 7 or Vista
    If you dislike the new Windows Vista shutdown menu, you are probably in the majority. An alternative option is to create icons that will let you shut down, lock, or restart your computer without having to mess with that stupid popup menu.

    Of course, Windows 7 makes the shutdown menu a lot better, but if you want a shortcut elsewhere or to assign a hotkey, this should help you out.
    First right-click on the desktop, choose New and then Shortcut.
    In the shortcut location box, you’ll need to enter the correct command, which I’ve listed for you below.
    Shutdown Computer
        Shutdown.exe -s -t 00
    Restart Computer
        Shutdown.exe -r -t 00
    Lock Workstation
        Rundll32.exe User32.dll,LockWorkStation
    Hibernate Computer
        rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll,SetSuspendState
    Sleep Computer
        rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0
    When you’ve clicked next on the above dialog, you’ll be asked to name the shortcut. Probably best to name it according to the right function.
    After you click Finish, you should now have a new icon that you can double-click to immediately shutdown, restart, or lock your computer.
    Change Shortcut Icon
    The default icon is really ugly, and if you want to have separate shortcuts for each function you might want to change the icon. Right-click on the icon and choose properties.
    Click the Change Icon button, and then you can pick from the available icons in the system, or you can use the Browse button to pick an icon you downloaded off the web.
    Note that you can drag them to your quick launch bar if you’d prefer to have them there.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Remove Shutdown and Restart Buttons In Windows 7
    Sometimes you might have a shared computer where you don’t want the users to be able to do a Shutdown or Restart. Today we take a look at using Local Group Policy Editor to remove those buttons from the Start Menu in Windows 7.
    Note: This process uses Local Group Policy Editor which is not available in Starter or Home versions of Windows 7.
    Disable Shutdown, Restart, Sleep, and Hibernate Buttons
    To open Local Group Policy Editor, click on Start and type in gpedit.msc and hit Enter.
    In Local Group Policy Editor navigate to User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Start Menu and Taskbar and double click on Remove and prevent access to the Shut Down, Restart, Sleep, and Hibernate commands.
    Now you want to enable this setting and click Apply and OK. You can leave a note to yourself in the comment box, which I find comes in handy when changing a lot of settings in Group Policy.
    Now when you look at the Power options in the Start Menu, the only options available are Log off, Switch user, and Lock.
    The setting goes into effect right away for all users of the machine. The button to turn off the computer if the user hits Ctrl+Alt+Del will be gone as well.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    Prevent Windows 7 From Automatically Rebooting after Installing Windows Updates
    Windows updates force the OS to shut down after they install. This can be troublesome many a times when you don’t want to restart your PC because of some work which is ongoing. So here is how to get rid of Reboot of Windows after Windows update Installation.
    To prevent Rebooting a registry tweak must be done. Here are the steps:
    1. Click Start Orb 
    2.Go to Run & type regedit.
    3. In regedit, navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Polices\Microsoft\Windows 
    4. In the left pane, right click on Windows, and click on New Key, then type WindowsUpdate
    5. In the left pane, right click on WindowsUpdate, and click on New Key, then type AU 
    6. In the right pane of AU, right click anywhere and select New DWORD 32-bit Value, then type in NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers. 
    7. Right click NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers & click Modify, then type its value as 1 and press enter.
     
    8. Close regedit.
    9. Restart the computer.

    Now Windows won’t restart once you install updates.