How do I disable the logoff buttons?

John Savill

January 8, 2000

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A. If you wish to disable the logoff buttons on the Start menu/NTSecurity dialog perform the following

  1. Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)

  2. Move toHKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer

  3. From the Edit menu select New - DWORD value

  4. Enter a name of NoLogoff and press Enter

  5. Double click the new value and set to 1. Click OK

  6. Close the registry editor

The change takes immediate effect. To undo simply set to the value to 0.

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