Power Button and Vista

[southpaw13]

I got my computer power hooked up to a button.  When I hit it to close down the system, Vista prompts me to close all programs first.  How do I bypass this.  I never had this problem with XP or 2000.

thanks for your help,
Southpaw

[Ummon]

Forget the answer but remember seeing it asked and answered a couple/few months ago.

[southpaw13]

Thanks-I searched "Vista" all the way to last year....No luck...

Anyone else?

Thanks,
Southpaw

[bc411]

Try editing this key in the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
"AutoEndTasks"=0

Change the "0" to a "1" without the quotes.

If the key is not present, just add it with the "1".

Hope this helps!!

[southpaw13]

THANKS!!!  It worked with zero. 

I'm not a computer expert, and was having trouble with the directions.  I googled it and found the same directions for the computer challenged.   Here they are:

"Just to reiterate, you’ll want to open the Windows registry by hitting the Start button, selecting Run, typing regedit, and then hitting OK. Scroll all the way up and collapse the folders on the left-hand side until you see only a list of folders that start with HKEY. Now expand folders (by clicking on the plus-box) in this order: HKEY_CURRENT_USER, then Control Panel. Click the Desktop folder, which should pull up the three registry keys noted in the tip: AutoEndTasks, WaitToKillApp, and HungAppTimeout.

If you still don’t see them you can add the registry strings manually. Start by right-clicking on the section of the Registry Editor window that contains all the keys and clicking New, then String Value. Right-click the new value and rename it AutoEndTasks, then double-click the value and make it 1. Repeat the same step to create a WaitToKillApp string with a value of 1,000 and a HungAppTimeout string with a value of 3,000."

Thanks again.....

[bc411]

Cool!! Gald I could help!!