Trev said:
Power options in control panel. Chose what the power buttons do. Then set
it to restart in the dropdown list
I don't think the OP was talking about the physical "power" button on the
front of the computer. He was talking about the Windows button displayed on
the screen when the Start button is pressed. By default this button says
"Shutdown". He wanted it instead to default to "Reestart". Would that
behaviour be affected by the same Control Panel setting which governs what
the Power buttonon the front panel does.
It's a shame the Vista and Windows 7 haven't kept the XP method of
displaying all the options simultaneously (Hibernate/Sleep, Turn Off,
Restart), rather that displayign them as a drop-down list.
Mind you, anything is better than the way that Win 95/98 did it, with radio
buttons which remembered their last state, and the button to accept the
chosen radio button option. I used to get frantic calls from customers to
say that when they tried to turn off their PC, it started up again. It was
almost always that the radio button was set to "restart" instead of
"shutdown", and they'd pressed the "Continue" button without checking the
state of the radio button.