Wake-On-LAN would allow us to overcome this, but we want to know who the offenders are, for administrative reasons. Now, if they are really determined, they have to go to greater pains to shut the machines down. The "Shutdown" buttons from the Start Menu and Logon Dialog via AD Group Policy. Since that is not the case, except, perhaps, without hacking Windows OS files, we have settled for removing It would be best if one could just remove the "Shutdown" option from the pulldown list. We are in a similar, if not exact same, predicament. Some more time to think about positioning.Īnyway, still working on a solution in my spare time You can also add the Log-Off option to the start menu also through a GPO as well so the solution is possible I just haven't really been able to ramp my mind around it or just need That I’ve found is the positioning of the icon itself which I haven't quite figured out yet. Part of the packaged MSI package you could replace the DOS icon with a similar one as the Shutdown button so that you don't have to re-train users. Is to update, secure and monitor systems during off peak times.Īnyway, my thought process would be to remove the shut down option all together as described by Bruce-Liu earlier in this thread, and then creating an MSI package that I canĭeploy through Group Policy with a replacement Shutdown option that would launch a simple batch file that I would place on the Start Menu “NOT DESKTOP”. I've been thinking about this a lot as well, as a systems engineer most of my heavy work is done during peak hours and without the systems being powered on I cannot do my job which I thought I had seen a method to change something in the registry to make shutdown = restart but I can't find it again. Educating them to use a desktop icon to restart is about as troublesome as getting them not to shutdown. Users know how to use start, shutdown, restart.
The tricks for removing the shutdown option won't work for me because I do want the user to be able to restart and I don't want to put shortcuts on the desktop (or anywhere else) for restart. I want them to be able to restart the PC if they want to, I just don't want it turned off. Whatever solution I implement needs to be transparent to the user.
The users have no reason to shutdown their PCs and I'm not worried about them shutting down using the power button or Task Manager because they aren't likely to intentionally shut down the PCs. Then I have no way to perform maintenance on the PCs after hours if Wake on LAN doesn't work - and on some older PCs it doesn't.
As I mentioned above, some users don't pay attention and click on Start, Shutdown, Shutdown.
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