How to hide Win8.1 Start screen Power Options

The Start screen adding power options (Shutdown/reboot/sleep) is one of the most enjoyable improvements that Windows 8.1 update makes to users, but not all computers that update win8.1update have this option. If you have a Windows tablet such as Surface Pro, you will find that the power option is not available because the tablet itself has a physical power button, and a long press can be turned off.

This is the differentiated services that Microsoft offers for different types of devices, but sometimes kindness can "do bad things". Tablet users may want this power option because the point two is also convenient, and there are ordinary device users who do not need this power option. So here's the trick: How to show or hide the Power options on the Win8.1update start screen.

Win8.1update Power option button

hiding or displaying this power option button requires you to modify the registry, so you need to be cautious when doing so. The specific methods are as follows:

1, open the Run box input "regedit" Start Registry Editor;

2, positioning to Hkey_current_usersoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionimmersiveshell;

3, a new one under the item, named "Launcher";

4. In the right-hand window of the Launcher item, create a new DWORD value, name "Launcher_showpowerbuttononstartscreen", and set its data value to 0.

Create a new registry key and DWORD value

5, the blank space of the taskbar opens Win8.1 Task Manager, finds Windows Explorer under the Windows Processes category in the Process tab, and right selects restart.

Restart Windows Explorer

6, after the completion of the above operation, go to the start screen to see it, the Power option button disappeared.

Power option removed successfully

When you need to display the Power option again, delete the registry key that you created before or change the DWORD value of the item to 1. For a Windows tablet that has no power options, set the subkey and DWORD values as described above, and then set the value to 1, and after restarting Windows Explorer, a power option appears on the Start screen.

Some may ask, can the search button on the edge of the power option be handled this way? Unfortunately, there is no registry entry to achieve this requirement.