Windows 8.1 changed shape in a few ways once its first update was released; thanks to her, they got to integrate a considerable amount of new features in the interface of this operating system, being between them, the button Delete that primarily we can find it in the upper right side of the Home Screen.
Now, someone might think of trying to uninstall this first update of Windows 8.1 why this button disappears, something that is not convenient to do even when there is a procedure for it. If you proceed with this activity you will not be able to receive more updates, as Microsoft has been mentioning in different news. In this article we will mention two suitable alternatives that you could use so that the Shutdown button is no longer present in the place that we mentioned above.
Using the Registry Editor to Disable this function in Windows 8.1
Although we do not share the idea of disable this button to Shut Down Windows 8.1, but in different Internet forums this type of help has been requested because the function is present when we use Win + X from any environment in which we find ourselves.
If this is your need and requirement then we recommend that you follow the following steps to achieve this objective:
- We head towards him Desktop Windows 8.1
- We use the keyboard shortcut Win + R
- In the space of the new window we write: regedit.exe
- The window of the Registry Editor.
- We head towards the next route.
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionImmersiveShell
- Once there, we click with the right mouse button in the area to the right.
- We create a new DWORD key (32-bit) with the name of Launcher_ShowPowerButtonOnStartScreen and we assign the value of 0.
- We accept all windows and close them.
With this procedure that we have mentioned, we already have a new key in the Registry Editor that will reprogram our operating system so that the Power off button disappears. The only thing we need to do for the changes to take effect is to restart our operating system. After that, you just have to go to the Start Screen (in case you have jumped to the Desktop) and voila, you can admire that this practical button has already disappeared in the upper right.
Disable the Shutdown button with third-party apps
While it is true that the procedure mentioned above can be effective, there are a large number of people who they are not experts in handling the Registry Editor and in their respective codes; a mishandling of any of them could involve an unstable operation of Windows 8.1, being for this reason necessary that you perform a backup of the operating system in case something goes wrong.
If you do not know the correct way to make a backup copy of an operating system in this new revision of Microsoft's operating system, we recommend that Check out the article in which we dealt with this issue with Disk Images.
Now, if you want to simplify the whole process that we mentioned above, then you could use a third-party application. The same, which has the name of ModernUI Tuner, you can download from the following link.
Modern UI Tuner is dedicated to a few other additional functions that you can analyze at another time, since now we are solely responsible for the possibility of using one of its functions, which will help us disable the Shutdown button in Windows 8.1; the application is portable, therefore we must try to locate it somewhere on our hard drive so that it is not accidentally erased.
Once we execute it we only have to go to the last tab (Start Screen), where we only have to deactivate the box of the only option present there. After we apply the changes (it may be necessary to make the computer) we will be able to notice that this Shutdown button will no longer be present in the place where we were before.