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What’s Vista’s power button on the Start menu for?

Vista gives you many options when it comes to shutting down your computer. At the lower right of the Start menu, you’ll see three buttons: a Power button, a lock button and a right arrow button. Clicking the right arrow gives you all the usual choices: switch user, log off, lock, restart, sleep, hibernate and shut down. Clicking the lock button gives you a fast way to lock the computer. Clicking the Power button will save your work and programs as they are and put the computer into sleep mode or, if it’s a portable computer and the battery is low, this will save your work to the hard disk and turn it off. See a screenshot of these buttons at
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