Power button shutdown

I used to have my power button set up to initiate shutdown. Since upgrade to Mavericks, it just does some hibernate thing immediately and I can't find where to change it back. Thanks!

Press and hold the power button for a while for the dialog box to pop up
or hold control key and press power button.
When the dialog box appears
press r for restart, u for shutdown and s for sleep.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5869

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Does Long press power button shutdown posses any harm on laptop?

Yes, It�??s Okay to Shut Down Your Computer With the Power Button
(Short Press but not a Long Press of the Power Button)
http://www.howtogeek.com/181295/yes-its-okay-to-shut-down-your-computer-with-the-power-button/
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Power Button shutdown solution.

No problem now. This experience may be useful to somebody.
I had a problem with my power button not putting my T500 into shutdown. I had to use the mouse to shut down. I think this conencided with my installing an updated BIOS to let me get XP mode on my Windows 7 install. The solution was to change the action of the button to be a sleep button, and then changing it back.
Before making that fix, I found that if I held down the power button down for 5 seconds, it seemed to act as a hardware reset. That is probably in some manual, but I had not seen it.

Hi nonfiction,
Thanks for posting how you got your T500's power button to shut down from Win 7, it's sure to help others.
Holding the power button down does a hard-power-off in my experience. That should be a last resort, because it leaves your hard drive's filesystems in a "dirty" state that needs to be checked/fixed on your next boot. The reason is that both the OS and the hard drive itself cache writes; when you or a program or background process request to write to the hard drive, the info goes to a memory cache (in fast RAM) rather than being immediately written to the (slow) drive. That way multiple write requests can be collected and all written to the drive at once, which is much faster. This works great until you remove power when the OS isn't expecting it. Say goodbye to the data in the cache(s)! So anyway: it's good to know how to do a hard-power-off in case you need to use as a last resort, but it's best to avoid using it if you possibly can.
Best regards,
Frank
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Power button shutdown choice window always open

I turned off my MacBook Pro using the power button after running Migration Assistant transferring user profile from another Mac via ethernet. The migration stalled. I turned off the new MacBook Pro and now, after it starts up normally, the window that you get when you press the power button that gives you the option to Restart, Sleep, Cancel or Shut down is always on. It won't cancel, but selecting any other option and starting up again the window comes back up.
The button itself still functions and doesn't feel stuck at all. I have erased the HD and reinstalled OS, but window to shutdown keeps coming up

A few more informations
My macbook felt a few times on the floor, once on the corner where the power button is located (...), but it was a few months, or a few years ago, and it didn't show the power button's problem before today
Since a few weeks, my trackpad stopped clicking
My battery says since a year or more "service battery", so it could may be battery-related ?
....Yeah, this Macbook is kind of screwed, but I'd like to keep it alive

IMac will only restart or shutdown from power button.

My iMac will only restart or shutdown from the power button, it also will not logoff users. It starts ok, but only after a hard reboot?? I have repaired permisions and no change. I have a clone I can restore from but any ideas whats up here?
The only things that I know I have altered are deleting files saved during migration from Panther (months ago)and running Unbuntu Live CD.
iMac G4 15 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 728ram

Are you booting into Ubuntu Linux? Most of us here wouldn't now anything to do with it. If the problem is occurring when booted into Mac OS X, it may be a sign of data corruption in the power management and user settings. Some corruption is easy to repair such as fixing the directory (which I'd only do after a clone). Here's how according to my FAQ:
http://www.macmaps.com/directoryfaq.html
And I assume the issue is with your iMac G4.

HT4623 Hi I have a question, I am operating my iPhone 4S on 6.1.1iOS, as my power button is not working, I have jailbreoked my device so that I have a option to restart and shutdown my device. If i upgrade to iOS 7 do i have such option?

Hi I have a question, I am operating my iPhone 4S on 6.1.1iOS, as my power button is not working, I have jailbreoked my device so that I have a option to restart and shutdown my device. If i upgrade to iOS 7 do i have such option?

Jailbreaking your iPhone forfeits your ability to receive any support on that phone, including from this forum.
You'll have to search elsewhere for answers to your issue.

IMac DV slot-loading power button glows orange after shutdown, cant start

Hi,
I have iMac DV SE (graphite model) of 1999, 320MB RAM, 40 GB HD, running Mac OS X 10.4.7.
Everything seems to work fine, but when I go to Shutdown, it shuts down fine and power light goes off...Then several minutes later, the power button turns orange and stays like that for a few hours and then goes off again.... Then several hours later or the next day, I have a hard time getting it to turn on again by hitting the power button.. the keyboard (old iMac keyboard) power button never works to turn on the iMac (should it?) but when I hit it while in Mac OS X, it shows me the menu to shutdown, restart, sleep, etc...
Also, by PRAM battery seems good (I measured it at 3.6 V) and it seems to keep track of the date and time just fine, so I cant imagine it's the battery....
So in the past when this happens, it just keep hitting the power button and/or remove the power cord and re-insert, etc, and some combination of that after many tries the iMac finally starts up...
Any idea what's going on? I cant find any discussion of the power button going orange after a shutdown and the fact that my keyboard power button doesnt work to turn on the Mac...
Help...
Andrew

Ah.. very interesting... I'm surprised I couldnt find any info on the 'net about this orange power light...
Anyways, I found have some interesting stuff since...
1. On this last occasion when it didnt turn on, I was jiggling some stuff (plugging and unplugging the power cord several times.... then I tilted the iMac slightly and let it "drop" to jostle/jiggle it)... and after the slight "drop," I hit the power button and it turned on just fine... d'oh... I wonder if something's just "loose" somehow... I dont have a random shutdown problem, once it's turned on and inside Mac OS X, it works fine for hours and hours until I tell it to shutdown. hehehe...
2. Just last night, before going to bed, I shut it down and since it's plugged into a power surge, I turned the power OFF to the power surge, so now it doesnt have any power to it... so this morning, I turned power to the power surge, and hit the power button on the Mac and it turned on just fine! d'oh again.. hehe... so it almost leads me to believe somehow that leaving the power cord with electricity flowing to the Mac when the Mac is shutdown is "hurting" it somehow, and if there is no power connected when it's shutdown, it works normally (I think)...
Very strange indeed...
Anyways, I got this Mac second hand so I am wondering if this was a problem for the original owner... when I first got it , I knew the hard drive was missing, so I put a 40GB IDE hard drive from a PC and formatted it, etc... so not sure if the hard drive could cause a boot issue...
Oh, well, I guess I'll keep using this iMac until it no longer turns on.. lets see how long I can keep going like this ..heheh..
Andrew

Macbook will not shutdown unless the power button is held

Recently my macbook has been refusing to shutdown when I click shutdown from the apple icon menu. When I press the power button, no menu pops up asking if I want to shutdown my macbook. It only shuts down when I hold the power button. Nothing changes, and its as if the macbook ignored my command (my screen doesn't turn blue, nothing disappears). Has anyone experienced this specifically, and what can I do to fix this? Thanks in advance

Hey Adam,
First off, Happy Friday! I would go ahead a try a hard reset to resolve this issue. You can find the instructions on how to do this on this page: Use Hard Reset to Resolve Hardware and Software Issues
If this does not resolve the issue post back with any new details and we can go from there.
Thanks,
Sean
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Power button - orderly shutdown instead of sleep?

Howdy,
We recently had a power outage in our office, and although our servers are all on UPSes, we reached the end of the batteries and had to shutdown the machines. Some were Linux, some were Windows, some were Mac Xserves. The only servers that wouldn't perform an orderly shutdown when the power button was pressed were the Xserves.
I know that you can make the machine go to sleep when you press the power button, but that's not quite enough for us. We actually want the Xserve to shut down completely. Can this be done? I'd appreciate it if someone could enlighten me.
All the best,
Jeff Kirk

Assuming the Xserves are attached to an appropriate UPS each this is easy.
Make sure the UPSes and Xserves are connected by either UPS or serial cables and go to System Preferences > Energy Saver. Switch the pop-up at the top to UPS and you should get a series of things you can select from to turn off your computer in an orderly fashion - by time on UPS power, time left etc.
Note this is taken from a 10.4 install but 10.5 should be similar. If your machine doesn't acknowledge the UPS that means that they're not communicating. If the Xserves share a UPS then you're on your own for scripting some solution where the one connected to the UPS tells the others to shut down.
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This has not happened. Subsequent power off and power on using power button will provide one-time solution but message re-appears on what seems to be a time cycle requiring repeat of on -off button action.

Some file or files that are essential for booting got corrupted during the improper shutdown. You could spend hours upon hours testing individually all the thousands of various files and replacing them with known good copies.
Holding down ⌘V at boot time will boot you in verbose mode, and from there there might be a clue which file(s) are corrupted.
But at this point it might be easier to just do an Archive & Install of OS X. Easier yet would be to reformat your drive and then restore your system from the last full backup made before the improper shutdown.

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> think this is normal. Any vaguely recent think this is normal. Any vaguely recent ...
Sorry - this is not normal...let me clarify....when I click 'Start' -> Shutdown -> select 'Shutdown' or 'Hibernate' from the drop down list, and press enter... It does shutdown or hibernate as appropriate, BUT IT ALMOST IMMEDIATELY STARTS BACK UP. This is not normal behavior. When you shutdown, it should indeed power off and stay off, until you press the power button again. That is normal.
The last physical contact with the computer is pressing enter on the "Shut Down Windows" window...I do not close the lid, move a mouse, or anything else...I merely watch it shut down or hibernate, and start right back up...
Please note, I have attempted to search for a solution, but I don't know the 'specific' terms to look for...as shut down or hibernate doesn't fail, it succeeds, it just 'turns back on' or 'boots back up' as if a ghost pressed the power button to turn it back on....
My advanced power settings are set to:
When I close the lid - do nothing
When I press the power button - hibernate
When I press the sleep button - sleep (I never use sleep)
I am sure the power button itself is not malfunctioning, because when I press the power button in Win XP, it indeed Hibernates, (before starting back up) If I 'shut it off during POST' and press the power button, it comes on as normal.
Any other guesses?

Power button won't initiate shutdown after installing Mavericks

Since I installed Mavericks the other day, I can't shut my MacBook Pro down like I used to by pressing the power button and choosing "shut down" from the ensuing dialog. When I press the power button now, the screen goes black and appears to be in sleep mode, except the LED on the front just glows - it doesn't pulse. If I press it again, my display comes back. I am able to shutdown from the Apple Menu.

OK, as soon as I posted this, I found the answer - holding down the power button brings up the dialog. Couldn't find that discussion when I was searching.

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Hello everybody,
I encounter a issue in WinPE that is pressing power switch in WinPE can not be detected, unless you press it and hold for 4 seconds to force shutdown, or use command: wpeutil shutdown.
In generally, we can use above two methods to shutdown PC in WinPE. but now I have to use power button to shutdown it (not force shutdown) due to I'm using equipment to test the stability of PC power cycling.
Somebody could tell me how to make it work? Thank you very much!!!!

Might try them over here.
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When booting up, the bluetooth connects and then disconnects with my trackpad 3 or 4 times then i get a gray cover over the desktop that drops from top to bottom then a window that tells me to use the power button to do a forced shutdown.

when booting up, the bluetooth connects and disconnects with my trackpad 3 to 4 times and then i get a gray sheet that drops down from the top to bottom of the desktop then a box in the center that tells me to use the power button to do a forced shutdown. wireless keyboard connects with no problem. went to the apple store and they replaced the bluetooth card. still have the same problem. removed the batteries from the trackpad, strted up and no problem connecting with wireless mouse and keyboard. anyone else experience this?

This could be a software/state problem or a hardware problem. Here are steps to resolve the former.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5282

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I get a screen telling me to shutdown using the power button. How can I fix this?

If this is a kernel panic, which it sounds like, then see: Mac OS X- How to log a kernel panic. Post the panic log here.

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