Hiding Shutdown Button

Here's how to restrict user's ability to shutdown their computer on windows XP. Shutdown button can be hide from start menu by using registry editor.

1. Logged to your computer as administrator.
2. Press Win + R button to open run dialog box, type 'regedit', then press enter/ok.
3. Look for the location : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Policies\Explorer
4. Right-click mouse on the right panel and choose New -> DWORD Value
5. Named it with NoClose and assign number 1 to its value data box.
6. Restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

To unhide the shutdown button, simply delete those DWORD Value or change the value data box to number 0.