🚀 go-pugleaf

There are utilities available to change the word "Start" i nthe start
button, the word is hard coded into explorer.exe so it's not easy to do
yourself unless you like hex editors but then to shutdown Windows, anyone
can at least RTFM.

BTW, in a car, isn't the starter also the same switch to turn it off?
everyone who complains about this aspect of Windows, haven't you ever driven
car? operated a light switch? ran a bath? turned a telly on and off? All
toggle switches, i.e. the start is also the stop. I think the shutdown
option in Windows is in the logical place, if they put it elsewhere then
your average user probably wouldn't find it.

Also you can shutdown windows by holding down Alt+F4, once the focus moves
to Explorer the shutdown dialog will be displayed and in both NT and 9x
versions (and Win 2000 as well) there's a shutdown button appears on the
dialog box when you press Ctrl+Alt+Del, although the reliability of Windows
versions that aren't built on the NT kernel means that this option doesn't
always work, partivularly if you've been having problems in the current
session (programs hanging, IPFs, etc.)

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Nuno Chalmique Chagas <nuno@dai.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> Following on Craig's sarcasm, I would just like to say that shutting
> down a windows system is probably the single most important thing than
> MS got wrong on 95/98.  From a human-computer interaction point of
> view, it is simply wrong to have someone push start and then
> shutdown...  it's bad design because it doesn't make sense.  If they'd
> named the start button something more sensible like "Menu" it wouldn't
> be such a problem.  If MS really cared more about substituting the
> on-off switch in people's minds, they should have had a nice icon on
> the task bar saying (say) "stop", that would go well next their
> "start" button and be more easily accessible and prone to be regarded
> as rather more important.
>
> Just babble.
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> -N
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