re: Question about 'When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' Monday, April 9, 2007 at 11:18 pm Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Lucus (1 messages posted) This is actually an annoying default in vista that is easily changed in the power options in the control panel, click on the change power plan on the power plan that you are currently using then about half way down the window click on Change advanced power settings, depending on if your computer is a desktop or a laptop this might look different there should be on option in the menu that says power buttons or power buttons and lid, expand it and you will see another option that says start menu power button, expand it and you will see 1 or 2 options again depending on if you have a desktop or a laptop just select the blue word sleep and change it to shut down and hit ok, then in the edit plan settings hit save changes and now your start menu button should shut your computer down instead of using the annoying sleep feature. Written in response to: Question about 'When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Dan: Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 5:38 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Dan: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at 5:12 am) re: Question about 'When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Dan: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at 5:22 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Dan: Sat, Apr 7, 2007, 5:38 am) re: Question about 'When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Shawn: Mon, Apr 9, 2007, 10:26 am) re: Question about 'When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Lucus: Mon, Apr 9, 2007, 11:18 pm) re: Question about 'When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Dan: Tue, Apr 10, 2007, 5:12 am) re: Question about 'When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Dan: Tue, Apr 10, 2007, 5:22 am) re: Question about 'When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Ty Harden: Thu, Sep 13, 2007, 3:32 pm) re: Question about 'When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (PV: Thu, Nov 29, 2007, 7:59 pm) re: Question about 'When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Ty Harden: Fri, Nov 30, 2007, 6:59 am) re: Question about 'When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Tes: Sun, Dec 2, 2007, 9:11 am) re: Question about 'When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (karen: Sun, Dec 9, 2007, 4:44 pm) re: Question about 'When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (sean: Sat, Sep 6, 2008, 1:33 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum