Change Start Menu power button

Set the default action of the power button on the Start menu.

If you enable this setting, the Start Menu will set the power button to the chosen action, and not let the user change this action.

If you set the button to either Sleep or Hibernate, and that state is not supported on a computer, then the button will fall back to Shut Down.

If you disable or do not configure this setting, the Start Menu power button will be set to Shut Down by default, and the user can change this setting to another action.

Choose one of the following actions

0. Shut Down
   

   Registry Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
   Registry Path	Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
   Value Name	PowerButtonAction
   Value Type	REG_DWORD
   Value	2

1. Sleep
   

   Registry Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
   Registry Path	Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
   Value Name	PowerButtonAction
   Value Type	REG_DWORD
   Value	16

2. Log off
   

   Registry Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
   Registry Path	Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
   Value Name	PowerButtonAction
   Value Type	REG_DWORD
   Value	1

3. Lock
   

   Registry Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
   Registry Path	Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
   Value Name	PowerButtonAction
   Value Type	REG_DWORD
   Value	512

4. Restart
   

   Registry Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
   Registry Path	Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
   Value Name	PowerButtonAction
   Value Type	REG_DWORD
   Value	4

5. Switch User
   

   Registry Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
   Registry Path	Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
   Value Name	PowerButtonAction
   Value Type	REG_DWORD
   Value	256

6. Hibernate
   

   Registry Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
   Registry Path	Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
   Value Name	PowerButtonAction
   Value Type	REG_DWORD
   Value	64