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The default behaviour of the power button in Windows Vista is Sleep mode.In order to change the buttons to shutdown do the following.
1. Open “command prompt“.
2. Type the following line in the command prompt.
3. “powercfg.cpl,1” (without the quotes).
4. In the dialog, browse to “Power buttons and lid“.
5. There you can change the properties of both [...]

In order to restart your Windows without actually restarting your Pc, You have to follow the Below trick.
To do this,
1. Before you click on the “SHUTDOWN” button in the Start Menu, make sure to simultaneously press the “SHIFT “Button.
2. If you hold the Shift key down while clicking on SHUTDOWN button, you computer would [...]

If you are worrying about the time taken to turning off and starting your windows,
Instead of turning off your Computer you can use the hibernate feature in windows xp.
To do this,
1.Hold down the “shift” key in the shutdown dialog to change the “Stand By” to “Hibernate“.
2. Or You can just press H to hibernate [...]