Now days many people are using their computers as a server. These servers can be accessed by all the users or non-professional users. Resulting then may can shutdown those systems or servers at any time ad that may causes more impact on our the functionality.
So, today we are going to learn, how to Remove or disable Shutdown from Start Menu and from the Task Manager as below,
For Windows XP :- Go to “Start” and click “Run” and type “gpedit.msc” and click Enter.
For Windows 7 / Vista :- Go to “Start”, in the Start Search type “gpedit.msc” and click Enter.
Now we can see Group Policy window, now select “User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu & Taskbar” from the Left Panel.
Now look on the Right Panel, and double-click on “Remove and Prevent Access to Shut Down, restart and hibernate Command.”
On the pop window select “Enabled” option.
This will remove the shutdown option from the Start Menu and security dialog box.
But windows can be shutdown via the command prompt also, so to disable Shutdown option from Command Prompt please sees below option.
Shutdown using command prompt is very easy (as we have already seen in last article). So to prevent user to shutdown from Command Prompt we need to disable Command Prompt option.
Now go to Group policy as above procedure, but select “User Configuration > Administrative Templates > System” from the left menu.
Now double-click on the “Prevent Access To The Command Prompt” policy from right panel and set it to "Enabled".
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