I work on a college campus. I maintain the labs. My boss wants to be able to float the computers in the labs updates at night. All of the computers in the labs have Deep freeze. So i have been toying with the possibility, of not letting students/faculty not be able to shut down the pc's only restart. I've been searching on and off for the last day or so, and the only THING i found was to completely disable the shutdown button all together, and create a short cut to restart. which works, but i want it to be familiar for the users. so basically what i am asking is:

is there a way to disable the shutdown function when a user hits a red power button and just make restart and log off options?http://dreadbob.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-disable-shutdown-in-xp.html
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/tips/frisvold1.mspxThanks for the help. But not quite what I am looking for. Honestly replacing the start button would be the best/disabling the "shutdown" option when CLICKING the red button. There is definitely a way, maybe i might have to look into some regedit things. Quote from: h0w on June 02, 2009, 02:38:51 PM

some regedit things.

http://dreadbob.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-disable-shutdown-in-xp.html
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/tips/frisvold1.mspx

either way.... holding the physical power button for 5 or so seconds will shut it off, regardless of settings.