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Remove Shutdown Button from Logon Screen in Windows 8

Edited by Lukward Thomason, Alexander Avdeev, Eng

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Hi! You're watching VisiHow. This is a tutorial on how to remove the shutdown button from the logon screen in Windows 8.

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The first thing we need to do is to access the security policies
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The easiest way to do this is to right-click in the lower-left corner of the screen.

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Then, we click "Run"
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Now, we need to type in "secpol.msc" and press "Enter"
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When "Local Security Policy" window opens, we need to double-click "Local Policies"
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Then, we click "Security Options"
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On the right side of the window, we need to scroll all the way down
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We find and double-click "Shutdown
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Allow system to be shut down without having to log on".
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We click "Disabled"
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Then, we click "OK"
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Once the previous steps have been done, we can close the "Local Security Policy" window
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