Microsoft KB Archive/193624

= Windows Remembers the Previous Shutdown Option =

Article ID: 193624

Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 95
 * Microsoft Windows 95
 * Microsoft Windows 95

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This article was previously published under Q193624



SYMPTOMS
When you click Start and then click Shut Down, Windows remembers which option you selected the last time you shut your computer down.



CAUSE
This behavior occurs because Windows writes this information to the following registry key every time your computer is shut down:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\Shutdown Setting



RESOLUTION
To work around this behavior, create a shortcut to shut down your computer. To do so, use the following steps:

NOTE: Use this information at your own risk. This article contains information about configuring or using Windows in a manner that has not been tested and is not supported by Microsoft.

 Right-click the desktop, click New, and then click Shortcut. In the Command Line box, type

\Rundll32.exe User.exe,ExitWindows

where  is your Windows folder, and then click Next. In the "Select a name for the shortcut" box, type "Shut Down Windows" (without quotation marks), and then click Finish.

Additional query words: 2.00 2.10 2.50 95 98

Keywords: kbui kbprb KB193624

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