Disable/Remove "turn off computer" option in locked Windows XP Pro. SP3?

Hello.

I was cleaning my computers' keyboards and desk earlier, and I
accidently shut down and rebooted my locked Windows XP Pro SP3 from its
keyboard input. I assume it is because of the turn off option. Is there
a way to remove/disable it?

Thank you in advance.
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On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:40:38 -0600, (Ant) wrote:

Hello.

I was cleaning my computers' keyboards and desk earlier, and I
accidently shut down and rebooted my locked Windows XP Pro SP3 from its
keyboard input. I assume it is because of the turn off option. Is there
a way to remove/disable it?

Thank you in advance.

That whole row of keys across the top of my "media ready" keyboard was
screwing with me so I opened it up and unplugged the little card they
were on.

I was cleaning my computers' keyboards and desk earlier, and I
accidently shut down and rebooted my locked Windows XP Pro SP3 from its
keyboard input. I assume it is because of the turn off option. Is there
a way to remove/disable it?

That whole row of keys across the top of my "media ready" keyboard was
screwing with me so I opened it up and unplugged the little card they
were on.

Ha. I have none of those fancy button and keys. I just use a plain old
fashion PS/2 clicky (almost like a Model M) 104 keyboard.
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Ant wrote:
Hello.

I was cleaning my computers' keyboards and desk earlier, and I
accidently shut down and rebooted my locked Windows XP Pro SP3 from its
keyboard input. I assume it is because of the turn off option. Is there
a way to remove/disable it?

Thank you in advance.

I remember doing that, often, but it has been long since I last set up an XP
system from scratch. I can't remember how I did it, before, but looking at my
current XP setup, I find "Shutdown: Allow system to be shut down without having
to log on" in Administrative Tools - Local Security Policy - Local Policies -
Security Options. Of course on my XP system it is set to Disabled, because I
always disabled it on the systems I set up, to avoid the exact scenario you
describe. Sorry I can't remember if this is the only way to do it, or if
there was something easier I did.

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Ant wrote:
I was cleaning my computers' keyboards and desk earlier, and I
accidently shut down and rebooted my locked Windows XP Pro SP3 from its
keyboard input. I assume it is because of the turn off option. Is there
a way to remove/disable it?

I don't know about locked or how to change the shortcut/s, but
'normally' one could turn off or reboot the computer with the sequence:

ctrl-esc (brings up Start menu) U (shortcut item in Start menu opens the
Turn off computer function) then S does standby, U shuts down and R
restarts.

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In microsoft.public.windowsxp Mike Easter wrote:
Ant wrote:
I was cleaning my computers' keyboards and desk earlier, and I
accidently shut down and rebooted my locked Windows XP Pro SP3 from its
keyboard input. I assume it is because of the turn off option. Is there
a way to remove/disable it?

I don't know about locked or how to change the shortcut/s, but
'normally' one could turn off or reboot the computer with the sequence:

ctrl-esc (brings up Start menu) U (shortcut item in Start menu opens the
Turn off computer function) then S does standby, U shuts down and R
restarts.

Yeah, but I was at the locked screen (winkey+L) so no Start Menu and
requires to login to get the desktop.
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On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 11:37:40 -0600, Ant wrote:
I was cleaning my computers' keyboards and desk earlier, and I
accidently shut down and rebooted my locked Windows XP Pro SP3 from its
keyboard input. I assume it is because of the turn off option. Is there
a way to remove/disable it?

That whole row of keys across the top of my "media ready" keyboard was
screwing with me so I opened it up and unplugged the little card they
were on.

Ha. I have none of those fancy button and keys. I just use a plain old
fashion PS/2 clicky (almost like a Model M) 104 keyboard.

I had that kind of keyboard too. PS/2, clicky, sturdy case, wide, and
relatively heavy. But ever since the keys started to die one by one
(right-ctrl, right-alt, then left-ctrl), I had to let it go after about 17
years.

Now I have a 107-keys Windows keyboard (standard, windows, menu, power
management keys). I plucked out the power key after several accidents,
leaving only the sleep and wake keys. Later, I remapped those two keys to
F13 and F14. I tried remapping the power key, but unfortunately it's not
remappable. That key's functionality is hardcoded somewhere in one of the
system device driver.

[Default] On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:40:38 -0600, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (Ant) wrote:

Hello.

I was cleaning my computers' keyboards and desk earlier, and I
accidently shut down and rebooted my locked Windows XP Pro SP3 from its

Whachu mean "locked"?

keyboard input. I assume it is because of the turn off option. Is there
a way to remove/disable it?

Thank you in advance.

Do you want to remap some key?

AutoHotKey is free and pretty easy to use, except as below.

Key Remapper for $24 is a little easier to use but especially easier
to use to get remapping of certain keys to only occur when certain
programs are running. I still can't get AutoHotKey to do that, even
though I know it's supposed to do it.

My "multimedia keyboard" is still attached to a broken computer, but
using either of the above programs, I assigned / and * of the
numerica keyboard to be volume down and volume up, and I assigned
pause/break to be mute. These are the 3 multimedia keys I used 98% of
the time. So now any keyboard is multimedia. There are some other
keys I never use that for future needs.

I would like to have pause/break function normally in cmd and tcc/le,
and I would like Insert to not function in Forte Agent 6, and if
anyone can explain how to do that in Autohotkey, I'd appreciate it.

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[Default] On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:40:38 -0600, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (Ant) wrote:

Hello.

I was cleaning my computers' keyboards and desk earlier, and I
accidently shut down and rebooted my locked Windows XP Pro SP3 from its

Whachu mean "locked"?

Winkey+L hotkeys to lock Windows XP backto login screen.


keyboard input. I assume it is because of the turn off option. Is there
a way to remove/disable it?

Thank you in advance.

Do you want to remap some key?

No.
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Ant wrote:
Hello.

I was cleaning my computers' keyboards and desk earlier, and I
accidently shut down and rebooted my locked Windows XP Pro SP3 from its
keyboard input. I assume it is because of the turn off option. Is there
a way to remove/disable it?

Thank you in advance.

So what happened? Did my suggestion fix it?

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What happens if you use the MS virtual on-screen
keyboard? Google for which.

I've used it when for some reason the keyboard
drivers didn't work but the mouse did.
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I was cleaning my computers' keyboards and desk earlier, and I
accidently shut down and rebooted my locked Windows XP Pro SP3 from
its keyboard input. I assume it is because of the turn off option. Is
there a way to remove/disable it?

I remember doing that, often, but it has been long since I last set
up an XP system from scratch. I can't remember how I did it, before, but
looking at my current XP setup, I find "Shutdown: Allow system to be
shut down without having to log on" in Administrative Tools - Local
Security Policy - Local Policies - Security Options. Of course on my
XP system it is set to Disabled, because I always disabled it on the
systems I set up, to avoid the exact scenario you describe. Sorry I
can't remember if this is the only way to do it, or if there was
something easier I did.

Thanks! That's perfect! Now, it is like my Debian/Linux box with no
shutdown/reboot option. Thanks.
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