To disable “Turn off Computer” button in Windows XP using Registry

It shows how to disable “Turn off Computer” button in Windows XP using Registry

Keywords: registry, turn off, shutdown.

Steps to disable “Turn off Computer” button

Step1: Click start and type regedit in Run option and press enter

Step 2: Then Locate HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer 

Step 3: Then locate Key “NoClose” or create key “NoClose” through right click and create a key a new DWORD value with the name NoClose. 

Step 4: Change the value or set the value to 1

Step 5: Restart the system for the changes to take effect.

Imp: If you want to roll back, just the change NoClose value to 0

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