Winkey - U has always opened the Utility Manager. What were you using that
allowed you to cause a shutdown?
See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301583
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"Tim Draper" <veehexx@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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> not seen ANYTHING on this: XP had the keyboard shortcuts for shutting down
> XP - winkey, U, U for shutdown, winkey U,R for restart - they dont seem to
> be working in vista due to the poxy search bar on the start menu.
>
> closest i found so far is alt+f4 then selecting the power-off mode.
> is there anything even easier via keyboard shortcuts that what i've found?
>
> tim