I never shut down my computer, but the only option in power settings is "sleep" which is a low power option, but allows you to restart almost instantly!
I suggest there is a good reason for this, so I wouldn't try to circumvent the limitations until Vista is more mature![]()
Hey does anyone know why by default Vista is set to go to sleep when clicking on the shut down button on the start menu. Also does anyone know if the default setting of putting the computer asleep when the user clicks on the shut down button can be changed so it will shut down the computer. So the user would not have to click on the arrow and click shut down from the cascading menu.

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