Shutdown your computer without logging into your system

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At the logon screen the shutdown button will be displayed with this setting. This enables you to shutdown your computer without logging into your system.
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At the logon screen the shutdown button will be displayed with this setting. This enables you to shutdown your computer without logging into your system. If you use this setting, you can shutdown your computer before you log into your system. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry paths listed below. You can create a dword value shutdownwithoutlogon and a string value shutdownwithoutlogon for the paths listed below, if these values do not exist. Now, right-click and modify the value to 1 which can shutdown your computer before you log into your system. However, if you want to get back to the original state, change the value to 0. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.




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First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".
Go to <b> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system\]</b>, in the open area right-click on "ShutdownWithoutLogon" and click on 'Modify'.
Enter the value "1" (Base Hexadecimal) without quotation in the text box and click on 'OK'.
Go to <b> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\]</b>, in the open area right-click on "ShutdownWithoutLogon" and click on 'Modify'.
Finally, enter the value "1" (Base Hexadecimal) without quotation in the text box and click on 'OK'. Once you are done. After a restart or logoff, the changes take effect.


Registry Entries

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  • Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\]
  • Location: Local Machine
  • Value Name: ShutdownWithoutLogon
  • Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
  • Enabled Value: 1
  • Disabled Value: 0
  • Action Type: Modified
  • Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system\]
  • Location: Local Machine
  • Value Name: ShutdownWithoutLogon
  • Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
  • Enabled Value: 1
  • Disabled Value: 0
  • Action Type: Modified


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