Changing the "Shut Down" button in Vista

[Chaotic42]

For some reason my "Shut Down" button on my Vista start menu is now a sleep button. How do I get it back to being "shut down"?

 

[toekramp]

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-...dows-vista-power-buttons-to-shut-down/

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
For some reason my "Shut Down" button on my Vista start menu is now a sleep button. How do I get it back to being "shut down"?

Looks like Toekramp answerd the question, but can I ask why you dont want to use sleep mode?

 

[slpaulson]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
For some reason my "Shut Down" button on my Vista start menu is now a sleep button. How do I get it back to being "shut down"?

Looks like Toekramp answerd the question, but can I ask why you dont want to use sleep mode?

I can't speak for the op, but mine doesn't wake up half the time.

 

[bsobel]

I can't speak for the op, but mine doesn't wake up half the time.

I was kinda wondering if it was something like that (which is possibly debuggable) or confusion over sleep vs off (many people think sleep is just standby). When it's working properly, I really dont know why anyone would want to shutdown vs sleep. Of course, when it's not working....

 

[dighn]

That blinking LED from sleep bothers me. I much prefer pure hibernation. When I manually shut it down I know I won't be using it for a while.

 

[stash]

Desktops do hybrid sleep by default, and you can configure how it takes before it goes into hibernation.

 

[13Gigatons]

Originally posted by: dighn
That blinking LED from sleep bothers me. I much prefer pure hibernation. When I manually shut it down I know I won't be using it for a while.

That's a mobo feature, my new boards don't do that, the old boards did.

 

[egale]

My machine sleeps and wakes up but when it comes back, some USB devices are not working properly. Cases in point are my Wacom Intuos tablet and Sandisk card reader.

Wacom says this is a know Vista issue. You must either, reboot, unplug and replug tablet, or restart tablet services. They say it isn't their driver but the way Vista wakes up from sleep and are working with Microsoft for a solution.

The card reader sometimes is not recognized after wakeup sometimes. Once I replug though, all is well.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
For some reason my "Shut Down" button on my Vista start menu is now a sleep button. How do I get it back to being "shut down"?

Looks like Toekramp answerd the question, but can I ask why you dont want to use sleep mode?

Meh. I'd rather just have it off. I usually just turn it on to check the forums or my email, maybe a quick game or two. There's no reason to leave it on.

 

[MarxMarvelous]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Meh. I'd rather just have it off. I usually just turn it on to check the forums or my email, maybe a quick game or two. There's no reason to leave it on.

Well, the whole point is that it is not 'on' when it is sleeping. Do you use S3 sleep mode (turns all fans off, etc). Since you 'usually just turn it on to check the forums or my e-mail', wouldn't you rather have it turn on in a couple of seconds instead of a minute+?

According to http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/powermgmt/VistaEnergyConserv.mspx, the computer will take roughly 5% when it sleeps compared to on @ idle (3.3W sleep vs 67.3 watts idle).

Anyhow, obviously you should do what you want 🙂 I just think some people are "used" to turning their computers off and don't know how much better sleep is.

 

[VirtualLarry]

The first thing that I do when installing a PC, is disable power-management. I don't think that there has ever been a time in PC history in which various power-management schemes worked 100% correctly. It's just not worth the hassle IMHO.

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
For some reason my "Shut Down" button on my Vista start menu is now a sleep button. How do I get it back to being "shut down"?

Looks like Toekramp answerd the question, but can I ask why you dont want to use sleep mode?

As above, some mobo's have really bad insomnia and dual booters want to know (I XP32 and V64 mine).