Today
tip is very useful particularly for those users who want to restrict the
common users to shutdown public computer in common areas. You can
disable the "Turn off Computer" button on the start menu and a common
user will not "Turn Off, Restart and Stand By" a computer. Using
registry editor, you can implement this task in all windows XP versions
with minimum effort.
Follow the given steps to disable Turn off Computer" button on the
start menu:
To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer
with administrative rights.
Click
Start button and type regedit in Run option then
press Enter for next.
Here locate
the location to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Here in
right side panel, right click to create a new DWORD value with
the name NoClose.
Now assign
number 1 in value data box and close the registry editor.
Now close the registry editor and restart your
computer after any changes to go into effect.
But
next time, if you want to enable "Turn Off Computer" button on start
menu then simply change the value of data box to 0 or delete
NoClose
DWORD item.
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