How to Hide the Shutdown Button on the Win8 Start Screen

Time: 2017-06-02Source: Huajun News NetworkAuthor: Uzumaki Naruto

Win8 system has shutdown buttons in many places, and there is also a shutdown button in the upper right corner of the start screen. If you accidentally press it, it will restart or shut down, so you need to hide the Win8 shutdown button. So how to hide the shutdown button on the Win8 start screen? Today, the editor of Huajun brings you a simple and easy-to-understand solution. I hope you will support and share the carefully selected content. If you like it, hurry up and get it!

How to hide the shutdown button on the Start screen

1. Open the Registry Editor (enter regedit in Run (WIN+R) and press Enter);

2. In the registry, expand the list on the left: "HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionImmersiveShell";

3. Then right-click on ImmersiveShell, create a new item, and then rename the newly created item under ImmersiveShell to Launcher. As shown in the picture:

How to Hide the Shutdown Button on the Win8 Start Screen

4. Then create a new DWORD (32-bit) value in the right window, and rename the value to Launcher_ShowPowerButtonOnStartScreen. The default data of this value is 0, so there is no need to modify the value data.

5. After all operations are completed, we open the task manager and restart the "Resource Manager", or directly restart the win8 system. Finally, when we go to the start screen, we can see that the power button is missing.

How to Hide the Shutdown Button on the Win8 Start Screen

Supplement: If you want to restore the display of the power button in the future, just change the value of Launcher_ShowPowerButtonOnStartScreen from 0 to 1, or directly delete the Launcher item you created.

The above is how to hide the shutdown button on the Win8 start screen. If you want to shut down the machine after setting it up, you can do it from the shutdown button on other interfaces.

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