How to Disable the "Turn Off Computer" Button in Windows

This tip is for network administrator who wants to restrict their users to shutdown computers at common areas. With this you can disable “Turn off Computer” button in the “Start Menu”.

 

 

 

 

A small registry hack can help you to do this, it works in all versions of Windows XP. Just follow the below steps:

• Launch Registry Editor.
  You need to have administrative privileges for this.
  Go to “Start Menu”-> “Run”-> type “regedit.exe” in Run dialog box and press “Enter”.

• Navigate to
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer 
• Right click on the right hand side panel and create a new DWORD value with the name “NoClose”
• Assign the value “1” in value data box

• Close the registry editor and restart the computer for changes to take effect.

NOTE:
You can always enable “Turn Off Computer” button on start menu by changing the value of data box to “0” or simply delete “NoClose” DWORD item.