How to Disable Shut Down, Restart, Hibernate and Sleep in Windows 10

Many user use the power option to Shut Down, Restart, Hibernate and Sleep.  Usually we take remote to physical machine or virtual machine & shutdown the system.  It very difficult to start the physical machine because it required to do physically. 

Admin can restrict user to use power menu option to avoid shutdown. There are different ways to disable the power option, so that user can not  do it self to Shut Down, Restart, Hibernate and Sleep in Windows 10.  If we disable the power menu option available in Windows. It reduces the workload of  Admins.

This will not affect the Alt+F4 Windows dialog & CMD command to Shut Down, and will not prevent users from using other methods to sleep, hibernate, shut down, or restart.

 

After applying the policy. Use can't see the option to Shut Down, Restart, Hibernate and Sleep as below screenshot.

 

Perform any below method to Enable or Disable Power option.  You can apply any one of then to restrict.  I as System Admin preferer method 2 to use to restrict all user to use Power option.

Method 1.

Enable or Disable Shut Down, Restart, Sleep, and Hibernate in Power Menu for All Users in Local Group Policy Editor

1.1 Edit group policy  Go to Run(Win+R) type gpedit.msc

1.2 Go to Computer Configuration>> Administrative Templates>> Start Menu and Taskbar. 

Remove and prevent access to shutdown, Restart, Sleep and hibernate commands- change to enable for restrict. 

 

1.3  change not configured or disable - To show option

       Enable- To disable option

Method 2

Enable or Disable Shut Down, Restart, Sleep, and Hibernate in Power Menu for All Users using a REG file

 

2.1 open registry Editor  as admin- Go to Run(Win+R) type regedit

 

 

2.2   By default no entry will be found. you need to  create Go to path

[Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"HidePowerOptions"=_

1 -To Disable option

0- To Enable option

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User  can use  above 2 method to restrict but user  below command  to Shut Down, Restart, Hibernate and Sleep in Windows 10

Method 1

 ALT+F4

 

Method 2

Go CMD type  below command as per requirement

To shut down system                  Shutdown -s

To Restart system immediately        Shutdown -r -t 1

To Abort a system shutdown           Shutdown -a