Solved Win 8 - Disable Shutdown & Restart for ALL users & LOCALPC

Hi everyone,

I have Windows 8 Pro (64-bit). It's currently setup to run as a media server for my home, but I'm getting really annoyed as I keep accidently shutting it down or restarting.

The only thing I want it to be able to do is to goto sleep. I don't want to disable buttons just for users, but also as a local computer too...so no shutdown or restart buttons AT ALL !!!

Can this be done? If so, how?

Bumpty Bump!

Thank you for the link TairikuOkami. Just to clarify, does this disable the buttons or the features or can it do both? Because I simply want to remove the options from the buttons,.

Actually I have not tried it, but you can use this instead, if you want just remove buttons.

Shut Down, Restart, Sleep, and Hibernate Commands - Add or Remove - Windows 7 Help Forums

Thank you for the 2nd link. Unfortunately I tried using that method and was unsuccessful in removing any buttons, hence my post on here.

Just want to thank you TairikuOkami for helping me. I have found my solution here:-

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/34478-shutdown-power-menu-add-remove-sign-screen.html

After totally removing the menu, I have created shortcuts for shutdown/sleep/restart using the shutdown command.

Now it works perfectly!