{"id":16779,"date":"2021-01-04T03:41:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T03:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=16779"},"modified":"2021-01-04T03:41:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T03:41:27","slug":"change-default-setting-for-alt-f4-shut-down-windows-dialog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/change-default-setting-for-alt-f4-shut-down-windows-dialog\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Default Setting for Alt+F4 Shut Down Windows Dialog"},"content":{"rendered":"

When all open windows are minimized or the desktop is active, pressing Alt+F4 keys will open the Shut Down Windows<\/strong> dialog. The default option is Shut down<\/strong>. Today we will show you 2 methods to change the default setting to Restart, Sleep, Hibernate, Sign out, or Switch user in Windows 10.<\/p>\n

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Method 1: Change Default Setting for Alt+F4 Shut Down Windows Dialog via Group Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open Local Group Policy Editor<\/a> and go to: User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Start Menu and Taskbar<\/code>. On the right, double-click the policy called “Change Start Menu power button<\/strong>“.\n

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  2. Click on Enabled<\/strong>. In the Options section, you can select Restart<\/strong> or other action from the drop-down list as the default setting.\n

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  3. Click Apply<\/strong> and then OK<\/strong>. Restart your PC to see the changes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Method 2: Change Default Setting for Alt+F4 Shut Down Windows Dialog via Registry Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Open Registry Editor<\/a> and navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Explorer<\/code>. On the right pane, right-click the blank space and select New<\/strong> -> DWORD (32-bit) Value<\/strong>.\n

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    2. Name the newly-created DWORD as PowerButtonAction<\/strong>, then double-click it and change its value data to one of the following values (hex<\/strong>) depend on your choice:\n

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      • 1 = Sign out<\/li>\n
      • 2 = Shut down<\/li>\n
      • 4 = Restart<\/li>\n
      • 10 = Sleep<\/li>\n
      • 40 = Hibernate<\/li>\n
      • 100 = Switch user<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
      • Close Registry Editor and reboot your computer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        When all open windows are minimized or the desktop is active, pressing Alt+F4 keys will open the Shut Down Windows dialog. The default option is Shut down. Today we will show you 2 methods to change the default setting to Restart, Sleep, Hibernate, Sign out, or Switch user in Windows 10. Method 1: Change Default […]<\/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],"tags":[4628,4629],"class_list":["post-16779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-change-default-shutdown-option-windows-10","tag-change-start-menu-power-button"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16779","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=16779"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16794,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16779\/revisions\/16794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}