Vista - Start/Shutdown button modified by design

Host: Windows 7 64bit RTM
Guest: Windows 7 32bit RTM

Why is the Start/Shutdown button modified in the Guest OS?

The VM can only be shutdown using the Action drop-down menu

Why is it this way by design?

VMware and VirtualBox both retain the normal Guest Start/Shutdown button
function

Why has Microsoft chosen this alternate path?

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:25:01 -0700, dmyers2k
<dmyers2k@newsgroup> wrote:
Are you referring to Windows Virtual PC VMs? If so, it's because
your'e connecting via Terminal Services which doesn't allow you to
remotely shutdown the session on a client OS. If you disable the
Integration components you can do this.
Also, you can simply type "shutdown -s -t 00" from the cmd prompt, or
a create a short-cut to launch this cmd as a .bat or .cmd file.

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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/

"Steve Jain [MVP]" wrote:
Thank you so much for that answer.

For me, it is always good when I can get a logical explaination for these
things.

I am playing around with virtualization on my Dell XPS M1730 laptop.

My interest in virtualization was prompted when I worked doing tech support
for different OSes. I always thought it would be good to have a vm for each
OS.

Now, I am going to delve into App-V since it is irritating to me when
software applications can't coexist without problems.

It will be nice when virtualization technology reaches beyond the
Server/Client role.

Again, Thanks