{"id":11552,"date":"2018-05-22T08:44:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T08:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=11552"},"modified":"2018-05-22T08:46:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T08:46:35","slug":"remove-logoff-or-sign-out-option-from-start-menu-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/remove-logoff-or-sign-out-option-from-start-menu-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove Logoff or Sign out Option from Start Menu in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can I remove “Sign out” from the Start Menu in Windows 10? Is there a way to prevent users from logging off a public computer? In this tutorial we’ll show you how to remove Logoff or Sign out option from the Start Menu in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7.<\/p>\n

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Method 1: Remove Logoff or Sign out Option from Start Menu Using GPO<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open the Local Group Policy Editor<\/a> and navigate to the following setting:
    \nUser Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar<\/code><\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    \tThen double-click on the “Remove Logoff on the Start Menu<\/strong>” policy in the right side panel.<\/li>\n

  2. Select Enabled<\/strong> and click Apply<\/strong>.\n

    \"\"\n<\/li>\n

  3. Restart your computer and the “Log off” or “Sign out” option should have been removed from the Start Menu.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Method 2: Remove Logoff or Sign out Option from Start Menu Using Registry Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Start the Registry Editor<\/a> window, and then navigate to the following key:
      \nHKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion \\Policies\\Explorer<\/code><\/p>\n

      \tIf the Explorer<\/strong> subkey doesn’t exist, create it (from the Edit menu, select New -> Key and type “Explorer” without the quotes) and navigate to that subkey.<\/li>\n

    2. Right-click the blank area in the right pane, and then select New<\/strong> -> DWORD (32-bit) Value<\/strong>.\n

      \"\"\n<\/li>\n

    3. Name the created value StartMenuLogoff<\/strong>, and then set it to 1 to disable Logoff or Sign out option in the Start Menu.\n

      \"\"\n<\/li>\n

    4. Restart you computer and Logoff or Sign out option is no longer available in the Start Menu.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      How can I remove “Sign out” from the Start Menu in Windows 10? Is there a way to prevent users from logging off a public computer? In this tutorial we’ll show you how to remove Logoff or Sign out option from the Start Menu in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7. Method 1: Remove Logoff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894,3,39],"tags":[3788,3787],"class_list":["post-11552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-remove-logoff-from-windows-7-start-menu","tag-remove-sign-out-windows-10-start-menu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11552"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11561,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552\/revisions\/11561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}