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

How to fix- Automatically Log off Idle Remote Desktop Sessions in Windows

 Many Times we take Remote(RDP)  & if it is more 30 mint. login account get disconnected & your unsaved data get lost. It is not your fault but due to data loss, I feel angry on myself.

This feature is enabled In many organization. An idle/ inactive session consume CPU resources and memory.  let us take an example- In case of server, 100 users are login but at a time only 3-4 user work. Since feature for  limit RDP IDL session is not configured so the user who haven't logout their active session consume huge no. CPU & RAM Utilization. The best way to kick out the IDL user from login session which helps alot to save RAM & CPU to overload.

If the feature enabled in system. Regularly we get this popup. Normally don't see such since we are not using RDP.

For solution, User must click to ok or provide input otherwise session will time out & login account get sign-out/Logoff in 2 mint.

If you want to turn off the feature from you system/Server then Configure Timeout and Reconnection Settings for Remote Desktop Services Sessions

Go to Run(Win+R) type gpedit.msc (make sure login with admin account)

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Session Time Limits

Now double click on click on set time limit for active Remote Desktop Services Sessions
Disable or not configure or enable accordingly for limit the time

  If you want to  stop this feature either not configured to all set time limit as shown in screenshot.

Now My system not get auto signout :)

The system can't find the file specified. C:\Windows\system32\\mstsc.exe.MUI

 

The system cannot find the file specified. C:\Windows\system32\LANG_NAME>\mstsc.exe.MUI 

Yesterday My system got windows Update. Now I am trying access Remote- MSTSC & getting above Error after windows restart. I am using latest windows 10 build version 1909. I don't know how this thing happened. I uninstalled the latest patch installed but it doesn't work.  I don't want to reinstall windows or restore to last good configuration. I tried a lot to find the solution.

There  are some system file missing or got corrupted. So I tried to file  as  shown in error.

Tried below file replaced with working system & get issue resolved.

Go to path C:\Windows\System32\en-US  & replace to file to working system

c:\windows\system32\en-us\mstsc.exe.mui
c:\windows\system32\en-us\mstscax.dll.mui

Finally issue resolved :)