Originally Posted by Silver Fox

Another issue that hit me recently was the power button not acting as a power button. It was set to standby or sleep, or something other than "turn the bloody thing off" and I hit an odd issue where I wanted to turn the laptop of but couldn't other than dismantling the thing and pulling the battery. I want my power button to be exactly that so that is what it now is. Perhaps there's other ways but in the heat of battle and abject panic I want the power off to do exactly that.