{"id":9599,"date":"2017-06-29T03:57:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T03:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=9599"},"modified":"2017-06-29T04:02:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T04:02:40","slug":"change-power-button-action-in-windows-10-8-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/change-power-button-action-in-windows-10-8-7\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Power Button Action in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to change what power button does in Windows 10? Every desktop\/laptop computer has a hardware power button without any exception whatsoever. By default, pressing the power button will put your computer to shut down, but in Windows 10\/8 it just puts your PC into sleep. To shut down a computer running Windows 10\/8, you might have to press the power button for long duration.<\/p>\n<p>This tutorial shows you a simple way to change the default action of the hardware power button so that when it is pressed, Windows will go into sleep, hibernate, shut down, or even do nothing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Change Power Button Action in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/9-ways-to-open-control-panel-in-windows-10\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open the Control Panel<\/a> in <strong>Large icons<\/strong> view, and then click <strong>Power Options<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/power-options.png\" width=\"569\" height=\"346\" class=\"alignnone\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>From the Power Options window, click the <strong>Choose what the power button does<\/strong> link from the left pane.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/choose-what-power-button-does.png\" alt=\"choose-what-power-button-does\" width=\"595\" height=\"388\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9600\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>\nClick on the <strong>Change settings that are currently unavailable<\/strong> link.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/change-settings-currently-unavailable.png\" alt=\"change-settings-currently-unavailable\" width=\"595\" height=\"564\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9601\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>You should see two drop-down menus to configure the default action when you press the power button. One is for when the laptop&#8217;s running on battery power, the other for when it&#8217;s plugged in.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/change-power-button-action.png\" alt=\"change-power-button-action\" width=\"595\" height=\"542\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9602\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select the action you want (<strong>Do nothing<\/strong>, <strong>Sleep<\/strong>, <strong>Hibernate<\/strong>, <strong>Shut down<\/strong> or <strong>Turn off the display<\/strong>), and click <strong>Save changes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This change will take effect immediately. Press the hardware power button and it should now function as you expect. That&#8217;s it!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to change what power button does in Windows 10? Every desktop\/laptop computer has a hardware power button without any exception whatsoever. By default, pressing the power button will put your computer to shut down, but in Windows 10\/8 it just puts your PC into sleep. To shut down a computer running Windows 10\/8, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1894,3,39],"tags":[3441,3443,3442],"class_list":["post-9599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-change-what-power-button-does-windows-10","tag-windows-10-power-button-action","tag-windows-power-button-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599","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=9599"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9608,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599\/revisions\/9608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}