Shutdown option greyed in logon screen

If you want to provide shutdown option in Windows logon screen, you can do it by either of the following methods..

Using Registry settings:

• Open registry editor by executing the command regedit from Run window.
• Navigate to the node HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionpoliciessystem
• Modify the data in registry value shutdownWithoutLogon to 1. If this key does not exist create the key with the type REG_DWORD.

   From Windows command prompt this can be done by running the below command.

Reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionpoliciessystem /v shutdownWithoutLogon /t REG_DWORD /d  1  /f


The command to disable shutdown button in logon screen:

Reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionpoliciessystem /v shutdownWithoutLogon /t REG_DWORD /d  0  /f

Using Group or Security policy settings:

• Open local system group policy editor by running secpol.msc from Run window
• Expand the node ‘Local Policies‘
• Select ‘Security options‘ node
• From the list of policies listed in the right side, look for the one ‘Shutdown: Allow system to be shutdown without having to log on‘. Double click on the policy. You will see window like below.

• Select the Enabled check button.

In group policy editor, security policy console is hooked to the node ‘Windows Settings -> Local Policies‘

You can follow either of the above methods (Registry or group policy settings) to enable shutdown button in the logon screen.