How to Customize Windows 7 Power Button Action
The “Shut Down” button in Windows 7 can be customized with another action, if you use shut down action very rarely, but you more often restart it or put it on sleep.

To change the action of shutdown button, right click the Start Menu button, select Properties and choose the "Power Button Action” to do whatever you want, from the given options.

It will give you a drop down list amongst following option to select from.


  • Switch user

  • Log off

  • Lock

  • Restart

  • Sleep

  • Hibernate

  • Shutdown


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Now the button at Start Menu would change and perform the action as selected.

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