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Hey Spiceheads,

We want to disable the Shutdown feature from the Start Menu, log on screen, etc on our Win 7 and 10 Desktop machines in our plant. We want to be able to make sure all PC’s are powered on when we do our patches remotely. I was just reading that it has to be done through a User Based GPO and not computer in Win 10? Is this true? Any way to do it via computer policy?

Thanks in advance! If any Spiceheads are going to Epicor Insights in Nashville next week, find me. I’ll buy you a drink!

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I assume all these PCs are in their own OU? Disable shutdown per user, link it to that OU of machines and enable loop back processing.

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There is an ugly way to disable the user interface via GPO computer settings:

  1. Create a new GPO or edit an existing GPO.

  2. Edit the Computer Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Registry:
    2017-05-19_16_04_04-PDC.manrex.com.au_-_Remote_Desktop_Connection_Manager_v2.7.png

  3. Add an entry:
    HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
    Value Name: NoClose
    Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
    Value Data: (0 = shutdown enabled, 1 = shutdown disabled)
    2017-05-19_16_10_44-Greenshot.png

  4. Following the reboot after the policy is applied the GUI for the shutdown will be empty:
    2017-05-19_15_59_05-Greenshot.png

  5. Filter link and go live

I can’t think of a reason why you wouldn’t enable loopback processing, but if you needed it disabled this is a different (less elegant) way of hiding the GUI.

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Is there a way to keep the restart and logoff option while getting rid of the shutdown? I want the user’s to be able to reboot the computer for updates.

I looked everywhere but wasn’t able to find the solution for Windows 10.