How To Display the Shutdown Menu when your PC’s Power Button is pressed

By default, your Windows XP will shut down when the Power button is pressed. It’s a good idea to change it so that the shutdown menu is opened instead, especially if you have little kids running around the house, They may switch the Power button and important works maybe not saved and shut down.

It’s quite easy to change it, just follow these steps:

Step 1:

Go to your Win XP’s desktop, right-click & Select "Properties" and the Display Properties

Open the "Screen Saver" tab and look for the "Power" button near the bottom of the window. Click it.

Step 2:

In the "Power Options Properties" window that opens, go to the "Advanced" tab.

There is a dialog box in the "Power Buttons" section. Choose what you want Windows to do when the power button is pressed.

"Ask me what to do" will make it open up the shutdown menu.

Step 3:

Click "OK" and restart your computer. From now on, pressing the power button will open the shutdown menu, letting you decide what you want to do

How to automatically wake your computer

Assigning scheduled tasks and automatically waking your computer is very useful, especially if you want your computer booted and virus-scanned before you arrive to play the Computer. There are various programs to do this, but it’s not that hard to do it manually.

1. First go to Control Panel and choose Performance and Maintenance. Click the scheduled tasks icon.

2. Next click on Add Scheduled task to open the Scheduled Tasks Wizard.

3. Browse for the program you want to run or select it from the list. Type the name and select how often you want it to run.Press next and choose the time to run it. You might need to enter the username and password from where you want to run it. Check the settings in the final window and click on Open Advanced Properties for this task when I click finish, and click finish.

4. When the advanced properties window opens, click the Settings tab and choose Wake computer to run this task if you want.

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