Policy

Turn off legacy remote shutdown interface

Microsoft Windows

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Turn off legacy remote shutdown interface
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > Shutdown Options
Supported on
At least Windows Vista

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

This policy setting controls the legacy remote shutdown interface (named pipe). The named pipe remote shutdown interface is needed in order to shutdown this system from a remote Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 system. If you enable this policy setting, the system does not create the named pipe remote shutdown interface. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the system creates the named pipe remote shutdown interface.

Internal name
DisableNamedPipeShutdownPolicyDescription
Policy ID
d73cb3011ef6
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Value name
DisableShutdownNamedPipe
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Value name
DisableShutdownNamedPipe
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.