Windows Remembers the Previous Shutdown Option
Article ID: 193624
Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 95
This article was previously published under Q193624
SYMPTOMS
When you click Start and then click Shut Down, Windows remembers which
option you selected the last time you shut your computer down.
CAUSE
This behavior occurs because Windows writes this information to the
following registry key every time your computer is shut down:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\Shutdown Setting
RESOLUTION
To work around this behavior, create a shortcut to shut down your
computer. To do so, use the following steps:
NOTE: Use this information at your own risk. This article contains
information about configuring or using Windows in a manner that has not
been tested and is not supported by Microsoft.
- Right-click the desktop, click New, and then click Shortcut.
- In the Command Line box, type
<Windows folder>\Rundll32.exe User.exe,ExitWindows
- In the "Select a name for the shortcut" box, type "Shut Down Windows"
(without quotation marks), and then click Finish.
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