Change Windows Vista Start Menu Power Button Default Action

Windows Vista Start Menu has a power button that if you press, will put computer system into Sleep mode. Going to the sleep state is the default action and behavior if user clicks on power button in Start Menu when want to shutdown the PC. This is in contradiction with the normal practice in Windows XP or previous version of Windows where shutdown power button would bring down the computer to complete off and power less state instead of energy saving sleep state.

The default action of power button in Start Menu of Windows Vista can be changed from Sleep to Shut Down or Hibernate or vice versa if you never want to use sleep mode to make the system sleeps, which still waste some electricity bill. Here’s the guide on how to change the power button in Vista Start Menu to trigger shutdown or hibernate as default action the the power button is pressed.

  1. Go to Control Panel.
  2. Click on System and Maintenance link.
  3. Click on Power Options applet.
  4. Click on Change plan settings on the power plan that is been used or activated.

    Power plan settings

  5. Then click on Change advanced power settings link.

    Advanced Power Settings

  6. Expand Power buttons and lid options tree.
  7. Expand Start menu power button option.
  8. In the “Setting” drop down list, change to Shut down. If you prefer to hibernate your system, choose Hibernate, or Sleep if you want to revert back to out-of-the-box default.

    Vista Start Menu Power Button Setting

  9. Click on OK button. The change will take effect immediately, and you can now shutdown computer properly by single clicking on power button at Start Menu.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 at 9:50 pm and is filed under Windows Vista. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

11 Responses to “Change Windows Vista Start Menu Power Button Default Action”

  1. max
    October 7th, 2009 21:28
    11

    thanks that was a real gr8 thing it helped me alot

  2. bbr
    October 7th, 2009 20:17
    10

    Very useful, this was bugging me for ages.
    Damn thing should remember the last action by default imo.

  3. Pier39
    May 30th, 2009 13:25
    9

    Thanks, this resolved the issue. My shutdown button was defaulted to “Sleep” and I’ve now changed it to “shutdown”

  4. Ubermench
    March 28th, 2009 03:31
    8

    Ever since upgrading to Vista I’ve always wanted to change the button so it shuts down instead of sleeping. Thank you so much!

  5. MTS
    January 19th, 2009 15:39
    7

    Nice, worked like a charm. Been looking for this for a while. Thanks

  6. Goodguy
    January 16th, 2009 10:47
    6

    Great I’ve been wanting to do that for AGES !!!!

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  9. Min
    August 27th, 2008 09:15
    3

    It doesn’t work at all. I’ve tried this option.

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    March 15th, 2008 23:29
    2

    Thnx

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