help no help for shutdown keys

[Char Jackson]

Looks good here. Ctl-Alt-Del plus three presses of Tab (or two of
Shift-Tab) takes me to the Shutdown key on that screen. I *guess* Enter
will shut the PC down. I might try later

BTW, the next press of Tab gives me access to the shutdown pop-up menu.
It has Shutdown on it, which makes me think that menu is independent of
my settings. Yes: an experiment shows that to be true.

Actually, what I am calling the shutdown key looks like a power button,
so I assumed it to be Shutdown. Maybe its default is the same as my
other Start Orb power button, so I better look. OK, according to its
pop-up hint, it is a power button, even when my Start Orb button
default is Restart.

Thanks for doing those experiments.

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:46:05 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"

Take a look at
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

which I just posted in reply to Char Jackson's question, which led me
to some experimentation.

If the pop-up hint (I just remembered: Tool Tip is the word) that says
Shutdown means what it seems to say, that is an installation
independent way.

Wait a minute though, we're talking Microsoft here. Is there any
assurance that it works that way on, say, 32-bit Windows Starter?

Time to try another test...

I'm back. The Netbook layout was the same, and even though I changed
the Start-Menu power option to Restart, the computer shut down. Or
would have: I seem to have a program which came up with a null-pointer
exception. Well, what do you expect for freeware? Anyway after I
manually killed that one, the shutdown completed OK.

Good catch. I had looked at the CTRL+ALT+DEL screen before, since it
would let you shut down from XP, but I missed the power button in the
lower-right corner. Also, not sure I'd have thought of trying to TAB
over to it. Well done, Gene!

 

[Andy Burns]

I don't believe that Windows Search has anything to do with the Program
Menu.

The Program Menu does have a Properties panel available by right
clicking the Start Orb. The Run Command and the Search bar seem to be in
there.

Yes, when I click the properties menu, I see the checkbox for "Run"
which I have ticked, but I no longer have a checkbox for the search box,
I assume this is because I have removed the search feature altogether.

 

[Andy Burns]

So it's:
Ctrl-Alt-Del
Tab, Tab, Tab
Enter

Yep, that sequence is fine here ...

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Gene E. Bloch wrote:

Yes, when I click the properties menu, I see the checkbox for "Run" which I
have ticked, but I no longer have a checkbox for the search box, I assume
this is because I have removed the search feature altogether.

OK, I must have been wrong about Windows Search vs the Program Menu.

 

[Jim Laurent]

For Windows '9x, it was Win, then U, then enter.

For XP, it's Win, U, U.

I've just restored to life a Samsung Q310 for a blind friend: the
problem was that one of the pins on the DC input socket had come
unsoldered. (Replacement sockets very cheap, but I didn't even have to
replace it; be careful how you plug and unplug your power leads, as
though this sounds a trivial repair, I had to almost completely
dismantle the laptop to get at it!)

Anyway, I wanted to shut down after testing: mainly because I like to
know for myself (as I find it quicker than mouse), but also since my
blind friend might not know, I wanted to know how to shut down without
using the mouse (touchpad). The machine wasn't online (that's another
matter: it saw my network (simple WEP), but when I tried connecting, it
went away for a few tens of seconds, then said there was a problem; I'd
expected it to prompt me for a key at some point, but it didn't.)

I find just hitting the power button workd for me.
you can check in Power Options to change what happens when the power button
is pressed.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

I find just hitting the power button workd for me.
you can check in Power Options to change what happens when the power button
is pressed.

That does depend on what option is set for that, though; as I've
explained elsewhere in this thread, I wanted something that will work on
any Windows 7 computer I come across, without knowing what options have
been chosen for various things. The best anyone has come up with so far
is

Ctrl-Alt-Del
Tab, Tab, Tab
Enter

which various people seem to think will work regardless - but it's a bit
long-winded compared to the three separate single keystrokes that worked
for '9x and XP!