Solved Remove Sign-in Options from power button menu?

Wisewiz · Jun 28, 2023

I'd like to remove the "Sign-in options" line from the menu associated with the power button at the bottom-right of the Start menu (1st screenshot). The menu for the Power Menu's "Shut down or sign out" is just right for my needs.

Anything I've found on the Web suggests that I kill my PIN as a log-in option, but I'm reluctant to do that, because I use auto-login always, and if anything goes wrong with that at any time, I'd like to be able to fall back on the PIN.

Needless concern? Kill the PIN? Any other way to erase Sign-in options?

Edwin · Jun 30, 2023

Wisewiz said:
Any other way to erase Sign-in options?

Only if you Hide everything..., which is moot!

Wisewiz · Jun 30, 2023

Thank you, Edwin. I think I’ll just leave well enough alone. It was just an idle moment’s whim. Like many of us here, I like tinkering with the unnecessary (to me) frills in Windows.

Brink · Jun 30, 2023

Edwin said:
Only if you Hide everything..., which is moot!

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Nar, you can just remove the whole Power button on Start then. :wink:

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This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the Power button on the Start menu for all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The Power button on the Start menu allows you to quickly open Sign-in options, Sleep computer, Hibernate computer, Shut down computer, or Restart computer from the...

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Edwin · Jun 30, 2023

Brink said:
Nar, you can just remove the whole Power button on Start then.

True dat!!!

Wisewiz · Jun 30, 2023

Awmigawd! Why’na heck dinn’ I thinka dat? (And you have no idea how hard it was getting that past the spelling checker and the auto-correct.)

Edwin · Jun 30, 2023

They seem to be in a habit of placing rarely used features in a prominent place and removing often used features!

OAT · Jun 30, 2023

Edwin said:
They seem to be in a habit of placing rarely used features in a prominent place and removing often used features!

I think you are right but they must be credited for the new 'Home' Settings page, with dynamic content.

Edwin · Jun 30, 2023

OAT said:
... the new 'Home' Settings page

I haven't got that feature!

OAT · Jun 30, 2023

Edwin said:
I haven't got that feature!

It is in yesterday's Dev build.

Wisewiz · Jun 30, 2023

I wonder whether that feature will put Home back in my Home-less FiEx when it gets to public release.

Edwin · Jun 30, 2023

@Wisewiz
I thought you use StartAllBack!?

Wisewiz · Jun 30, 2023

You thought wrong, m'fren'. I did try out Power Start Menu, a much smaller and less system-intrusive (= effective) utility, but decided ultimately to leave the Search bar and the immensely annoying Recommended section alone. I'm an eternal optimist, and I'm hoping MS will either come to its senses or listen to its customers (or both) and get rid of those "features" eventually.

End of last year, I sought a way to remove File Explorer from the right-click menu of the File Explorer (yes!) icon on the T-bar, but no help emerged for getting rid of that silly redundancy.