Power menu for vista

Windows XP also has two buttons but instead of having a sleep button it has a shut down button. Putting your computer to sleep is a good idea, it saves you some time when starting up Vista and logging on.

But, Vista is not that stable yet that you can leave your machine running for days and weeks, at least not for me who works with development and a lot of applications. Power management settings can change during an application session.

Your application can be notified when settings change. For more information about power management interfaces, see The Power-Aware Application. Send comments about this topic to Microsoft. Skip to main content.

This browser is no longer supported. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Before you start Objectives: Learn where and how can you configure Power Options in Vista in order to conserve your battery.

Power Plans Here we can select a power plan. You can alter the "Start menu power button" setting from "Sleep" to "Shut down" or to "Hibernate". Click OK to apply the altered changes. After making changes on the power options, you can see that the color of the start menu power button has changed to red. Also the tooltip displayed when you move the mouse over the start menu power button has changed from sleep state tooltip message to :.