Power Button

Using Vista Business, is there a way to make the power button prompt me for
what I would like to do when I press it?
In XP I was able to set the power button to prompt me for Sleep, Restart,
Hibernate or Shut Down while in Vista I am only able to set the default
action for the button which is very frustrating.

AFAIK, no, there are no options for prompting for the power button. I
believe this has to do with Microsoft working towards energy conservation,
which is always a good thing :^)

I just read a posting by "cvp" for a way to be prompted, it's not by the
power button, but by a shortcut.

1) Open Notepad
2) Insert "(newActiveXObject("Shell.Application")).ShutdownW indows();"
(<--without the quotation marks)
3) Save the file as "Prompt.js" (<--you can name it what you want,
but make sure to save it as a .js file)
4) Clicking on "Prompt.js" now gives all the shutdown options.

This is a somewhat modified version of what "cvp" posted, but the end
results are the same. This might help you, it might not, but thought I'd
share it with you.

Thank you David, that is great!

Actually I spoke to soon. When I run this I get a WSH error of "Object
Expected" when I run the file.

(newActiveXObject("Shell.Application")).ShutdownWi ndows();
saved as prompt.js

Dan, put a space between new and Active, so that it looks like this:

(new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application")).ShutdownWindow s();

Sorry, I just looked back at my original posting, and saw that I didn't put
in the space. The instructions should have read:

1) Open Notepad
2) Insert "(new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application")).ShutdownWindow s();"
(<--without the quotation marks)
3) Save the file as "Prompt.js" (<--you can name it what you want,
but make sure to save it as a .js file)
4) Clicking on "Prompt.js" now gives all the shutdown options.



"Dan G" <DanG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BB5AAB59-0D01-4964-8126-BB6CBE2E5082@microsoft.com...
> Actually I spoke to soon. When I run this I get a WSH error of "Object
> Expected" when I run the file.
>
> (newActiveXObject("Shell.Application")).ShutdownWi ndows();
> saved as prompt.js

worked like a champ, thanks David

You have got to be kidding. How does giving you a choice when you press the
power button have anything to do with....I
believe this has to do with Microsoft working towards energy conservation,
which is always a good thing :^) ......
This one feature I really miss from moving across to vista. The only other
thing I miss is preview in windows explorer. Was a great way of quickly going
tothe jpeg you wanted.


"David Wright" wrote:

> AFAIK, no, there are no options for prompting for the power button. I
> believe this has to do with Microsoft working towards energy conservation,
> which is always a good thing :^)
>
>