Some users do not use the Shut down button from the Start Menu to power off their Windows computers. Instead, they prefer to use the hardware power button found on their PCs and devices. If you are such a user, you might want to change the default behavior of the Shut down button from the Start Menu into something else, which you are likely to use more frequently: Log off, Lock, Restart, Sleep or Switch User. Or you might prefer to configure the hardware power button that’s found on your Windows computer or device, to put it to sleep instead of shutting it down as it happens by default. This tutorial will show you how to do these things in Windows 7, as well as in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10: