Do not turn off system power after a Windows system shutdown has occurred.

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2003, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista, WindowsXP

This policy setting allows you to configure whether power is automatically turned off when Windows shutdown completes. This setting does not affect Windows shutdown behavior when shutdown is manually selected using the Start menu or Task Manager user interfaces. Applications such as UPS software may rely on Windows shutdown behavior. This setting is only applicable when Windows shutdown is initiated by software programs invoking the Windows programming interfaces ExitWindowsEx() or InitiateSystemShutdown(). If you enable this policy setting, the computer system safely shuts down and remains in a powered state, ready for power to be safely removed. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the computer system safely shuts down to a fully powered-off state.

This policy has no additional user input fields.

• Computer
  Activate Shutdown Event Tracker System State Data feature

  Windows Server 2003 only
• Computer
  Allow Distributed Link Tracking clients to use domain resources

  Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 only
• User
  Century interpretation for Year 2000

  At least Windows 2000
• Computer
  Configure the behavior of the sudo command

  At least Windows 11
• User
  Custom User Interface

  At least Windows 2000
• Computer
  Display highly detailed status messages

  At least Windows 2000
• Computer
  Display Shutdown Event Tracker

  At least Windows Server 2003 operating systems or Windows XP Professional