Jan 31 2008

How to disable power, sleep, wake buttons in Windows XP?


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Hit your keyboard power or sleep button in the middle of a presentation?

I just had this happen to me the other day.  Not in the middle of a presentation, but with a hundred windows open and some unrecoverable data lost because the power button on the keyboard inadvertently banged against the desk as I was moving it out of the way.  The computer promptly shut itself down.  Without further ado, here's how to disable those pesky buttons:

Disabling power, sleep, and wake buttons in Windows XP

  • Navigate to Start -> Control Panel
  • Click Power Options -> Advanced tab
  • Under "Power buttons," change the settings for the power and sleep buttons to "Do nothing"

 

 

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This may work on a laptop,

Submitted by a visitor from afar on Thu, 2008-10-02 09:31.

This may work on a laptop, but it does not work on a workstation. If you hold the power button, it will shutdown the computer.

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