Hide Shutdown or change order of Shutdown option in Server 2012 R2

Is it possible to either hide Shutdown from the Shut down or sign out menu, or to change the order they appear on screen?The order of the options is really poor, Sign out and Shut down one above the other in the middle of the menu is a recipe for disaster,
as I have encountered recently when 2 servers where shut down accidentally.
I know I can use a GPO to remove the Shut down, restart, sleep and hibernate options, but restart is kind of useful, and not everybody knows about Run > Shutdown -r
Anyone know if this can be done and, if so, how?

Hi，
Thanks for posting here.
It might not be able to hide the shutdown on the menu. However, you can use the group policy to remove the shut down, restart, sleep and hibernate options. As you mentioned that the restart is very useful, also you can scheduled a task on the server to reboot
the server automaticlly.
Best Regards,
Elaine
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