This is pretty much what I requested from the Win8 Build Team.

W/ this, no more need for the previous separate Shut Down & Restart buttons; although they can stay on Start, as tiles. And, better than Alt+F4...better than anything, really. Way better than, Charms>Settings!

Still hope we see it embedded in next versions of the OS.

Have deleted the Shut Down & Restart buttons from Quick Launch, now.

Put the Power button on the Sys Tray
Rt Clk (it) > About
Check (box) "Start w/ Desktop"

Now will be permanently there following reboots

NPowerTray

Enjoy!!



And, here's another view, also, showing use of Desktop Toolbar which, makes drilling down to ____ a cinch.



Cheers,
Drew

Each time I restart the app stops and does not restart, even when I select Start with Windows. Not much good if it will not start when I want it to start.

OK, I see, the app has to run at each start. Unfortunately Win 8 CP does not recognize the author and asks for permission each time. This will get tiresome for me very quickly. My shortcuts, on the other hand, just sit there, do not run in the background, and require just one click. For now I think I will stick with them.

This might be just the ticket for some.

Ted,

Solution:

Put the Power button on the Sys Tray
Rt Clk (it) > About
Check (box) "Start w/ Desktop"

Now will be permanently there; no redoing necessary, no error messages, either. ...better than the 2 buttons (now). Quite ideal, actually. And it IS what I had asked the W8 Build Team to do.

Drew

I did that and it did not display the power button until the app started again. In my case the app gets placed in a temp folder, and that temp folder gets cleaned at start up by my cleanup batch file. I then moved the file to another folder and it would not operate the way it was intended and continued to run the app at startup, thus placing the app in a temp folder. One of those vicious cycles. I will have to look at the code to see if it can be moved to a different folder. The author does include the source code.

Ted, sorry, but, I still don't get what "App running" & code & things lost in various folders...

From the link you get a page where you see this,

Download Link

You can download NPowerTray here

And you click on here

Save the zip file to somewhere. Click it & you get Npower.exe Dbl Clk that & it goes straight on to the System Tray. That's it. Nothing more to it. THEN, Rt Clk it > About & check "Start w/ Desktop"

From then on it just sits on the System Tray. Quite perfect. It's exactly what I had envisioned, instead of a buried Power button; Or adding 2 separate buttons which, don't give you Sleep, either. But, this does

Wish I could grasp why you're having difficulty w/ this.

Cheers,
Drew

It downloads to my downloads folder. I run the app. It loads the icon in my Taskbar as shown on your illustration. I have Start with Windows Desktop checked

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and still when I start Win 8 CP I get this warning about an unknown author when I start.

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So each time I start Win 8 CP I have to tell it to allow this little app to run. How is this saving me anything?

Ted,

I am not going through that. The button just sits permanently & quite happily on the Sys Tray & functions exactly as desired. Dunno why you are having such issues.

Drew

I will leave it there for a while and see what happens. It's a little frustrating. I seem to keep plugging away until I figure things out, even if I'm not going to use something.

OK I found part of the problem. This is where the NPowerTray is loaded in the registry:

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Here is my Cleanup batch file that runs at Startup:

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Notice anything???


Now mind you I had removed the batch file from Start up for the other screen shots to see if that made a change.

With the Cleanup batch file in the Start up folder, the NPowerTray.exe is cleaned out. That's what I was trying to say earlier that the app is placed into a temp folder to run, and I clean out that temp folder at Start up.

Ah, ok, that's why you are having this & I'm not, would seem. I, even, tried running CCleaner & then used my button to Reboot... came back w/ the button still sitting on the System Tray. Either it's where you put it or it's your file cleaner that's wiping it out, each time.

I dunno if these will help but...



Cheers,
Drew