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I see that I lack the choice to reboot/shut down via the start menu when logged into Windows 7 via Remote Desktop, whereas it is present in Windows Server 2008 R2. Is there some setting in Windows 7 to enable reboot/shutdown?

EDIT: The question is specifically about whether it is possible to enable the standard reboot/shutdown controls in the start menu, and if so, how.

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group policies, not sure exactly where but its in there somewhere.. im sure a search engine would yield some more MSDN'ish results. – ppumkin Jan 11 at 13:07
@ppumkin I have googled on group policies and shutdown, and I couldn't find any corresponding setting unfortunately. Thinking there isn't one. – aknuds1 Jan 11 at 15:36
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You don't need to use start menu to shutdown your remote machine from Remote Desktop. When I need to turn the remote machine off I use "cmd.exe shutdown -s" command.

I'm not sure that there is a way to add it to start menu, however, you can create a .lnk simbolic link on the desktop to the related command:

mklink "c:\users\public\desktop\Turn Off remotelly.lnk" "cmd.exe shutdown -s"

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I know I don't need to, but I would like to know if I can. – aknuds1 Jan 11 at 13:30
+1 for symbolic link on the desktop. – BryceAtNetwork23 Jan 11 at 13:37
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Having looked around a bit, it appears there is unfortunately no way to enable reboot/shutdown from the start menu in a remote session in Windows 7, even through group policies :( I guess Windows 7 is designed for a "dumber" user on average, considering Server 2008 is not gimped in this way :) I guess my main method will be to press Ctrl-Alt-End (remote equivalent to Ctrl-Alt-Del) and then use the shutdown options from that dialog.

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Open the Start menu and type in the search box:

Shutdown /r /t 0

Use /r for restart or /s for shutdown. The /t 0 is the number of seconds to wait before restarting, namely 0. If omitted, 30 seconds is used.

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I know about alternative methods, it's outside of the scope of the question. – aknuds1 Jan 12 at 8:23
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Ctrl+Alt+End will bring up the security dialog, which includes the option to restart the machine.

All shortcuts available here.

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I know about alternative methods, it's outside of the scope of the question. – aknuds1 Jan 12 at 8:23
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