Vista - No shut down option in Vista start menu

hi

in vista's start menu, the arrow beside the lock only gives 3 options:
switch user, log off and lock. why is there no shut down or sleep/hibernate
option here? i need to log off to reach a shut down option.
can i get a shut down option to appear when i click on the arrow?
thanks
ian

Perhaps your user is not an administrator and your profile setting on your
user group disallows shutdown. You can doublecheck this by going to Control
Panel/Administrative Tools/Local Security Policy. Under Local Policies you
should have a few options, one of which is the Shut down the system. Check
to make sure your security group is there. If you created a new group, you
will probably need to add it. The login screen will have shutdown because
you just have to type the administrator or a login with sufficient rights
and click shutdown. They did it this way so that an admin would not need to
login to the machine just to shut the machine down.

Hope this helps.

Jayme Pechan

Hi Ian,

Other than a reinstall, I do not know. Hopefully someone will know can give you a solution for this. In the mean time, this tutorial will show you how to have a Shutdown shortcut icon.

Shutdown shortcut

Shawn

another option also is if you have a program called tweakVI that tweaking
program might prevent you from seeing that option

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"ianmcc" <ianmcc@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

I have three articles that you might find useful:

Put the Shut Down, Log Off, Restart and Hibernate shortcuts on your desktop
http://www.vista4beginners.com/Shut-...tart-Hibernate

Put the Shut Down button back on your Start Menu
http://www.vista4beginners.com/shut-...ton-start-menu

Changing what the power button does
http://www.vista4beginners.com/chang...er-button-does

These articles should clear all your questions regarding the new Start Menu
and the Shut Down/Hibernate/etc icons.

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"ianmcc" wrote:

Is there a red button to the LEFT of the lock icon? That's the shutdown
button.


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