Start/Shutdown button modified by design

Host: Windows 7 64bit RTM
Guest: Windows 7 32bit RTM

Why is the Start/Shutdown button modified in the Guest OS?

The VM can only be shutdown using the Action drop-down menu

Why is it this way by design?

VMware and VirtualBox both retain the normal Guest Start/Shutdown button
function

Why has Microsoft chosen this alternate path?

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:25:01 -0700, dmyers2k
<> wrote:

>Host: Windows 7 64bit RTM
>Guest: Windows 7 32bit RTM
>
>Why is the Start/Shutdown button modified in the Guest OS?
>
>The VM can only be shutdown using the Action drop-down menu
>
>Why is it this way by design?
>
>VMware and VirtualBox both retain the normal Guest Start/Shutdown button
>function
>
>Why has Microsoft chosen this alternate path?

Are you referring to Windows Virtual PC VMs? If so, it's because
your'e connecting via Terminal Services which doesn't allow you to
remotely shutdown the session on a client OS. If you disable the
Integration components you can do this.
Also, you can simply type "shutdown -s -t 00" from the cmd prompt, or
a create a short-cut to launch this cmd as a .bat or .cmd file.

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/

"Steve Jain [MVP]" wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:25:01 -0700, dmyers2k
> <> wrote:
>
> >Host: Windows 7 64bit RTM
> >Guest: Windows 7 32bit RTM
> >
> >Why is the Start/Shutdown button modified in the Guest OS?
> >
> >The VM can only be shutdown using the Action drop-down menu
> >
> >Why is it this way by design?
> >
> >VMware and VirtualBox both retain the normal Guest Start/Shutdown button
> >function
> >
> >Why has Microsoft chosen this alternate path?
>
> Are you referring to Windows Virtual PC VMs? If so, it's because
> your'e connecting via Terminal Services which doesn't allow you to
> remotely shutdown the session on a client OS. If you disable the
> Integration components you can do this.
> Also, you can simply type "shutdown -s -t 00" from the cmd prompt, or
> a create a short-cut to launch this cmd as a .bat or .cmd file.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> http://vpc.essjae.com/
>

Thank you so much for that answer.

For me, it is always good when I can get a logical explaination for these
things.

I am playing around with virtualization on my Dell XPS M1730 laptop.

My interest in virtualization was prompted when I worked doing tech support
for different OSes. I always thought it would be good to have a vm for each
OS.

Now, I am going to delve into App-V since it is irritating to me when
software applications can't coexist without problems.

It will be nice when virtualization technology reaches beyond the
Server/Client role.

Again, Thanks