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23-May-2007, 12:43 PM #1
What Happened To What I Want?
On windows XP, in the power options, the setting of "When i push the power button do this" used to have the option of "Ask me what I want to do". In my vista install all it gives me is shut down and sleep. I want to get that back!!! I use media center pretty much as a tv. When I am done, I hit the power button on the remote and it used to ask if I wanted to shutdown, sleep, close media center, hibernate, etc. Now when I hit the power button, it tries to go to sleep. Then right away it wakes back up. It comes up to the login screen and media center is playing in the background... I can hear it. This is very annoying!!

In a perfect Vista, I would love to be able to hit the power button and just turn off the monitor. Instead what I had done in the past was hit the power and tell it to close media center. I don't have any of those options anymore!! Anyone know how to get this back?
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23-May-2007, 03:11 PM #2
Hi Matt,
It's not lost....Click on Vista Start...at the bottom of panel you well see an arrow pointing to the right....click on this....

Have a good one.
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23-May-2007, 03:54 PM #3
I know that... I'm talking about hitting the physical power button or the button on the remote. Thanks for the info though.
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05-Nov-2007, 04:24 PM #4
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