How to Create a Shutdown Shortcut on Your Desktop
I must admit that sometimes I can be rather lazy...lazy to the point that I wont go to the start menu to shut off my computer, I rather have a button on my desktop that is always accesible that allows me to turn of my computer the minute I double-click it. Below you will find instructions on how to create such a shortcut on your desktop. You can also view the one pager by clicking on the pic tutorial icon. As always comments/suggestions are always welcome.
1. Right-click your Dekstop Computer and select New > Shortcut from the drop down menu
2. In the browse box type: SHUTDOWN -s -t 01, click Next
3. Type a desired name for your shortcut, click Finish
4. After completing this step, you should have a new shortcut on your desktop that allows you to shut down your computer by simply clicking on it.
5. When done verify function of the shortcut by double-clicking on it.
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Restart from a shortcut
Make a second copy of this shortcut but then right-click, go to Properties and on the Shortcut Tab change the -s switch so that it becomes -t to give you:
%windir%\system32\SHUTDOWN.exe -r -t 01
Then change the icon to something like the refresh arrows.
Now, when you double-click this new shortcut your computer will Restart rather than just shutdown.
Select the 'Power' icon as the display
A neat thing you can do after this is to right-click the shortcut and select 'properties'. Then click 'change icon' and select the 'power on/off' icon to represent the shortcut. Now it really looks the part doesn't it!!
How-to Create a Shutdown Shortcut on Your Desktop
Hi!
I have Windows XP and I always shut off the computer by clicking the [Windows]-button on the keyboard, then quickly the key [U] TWICE. ('U' is the button for "Turn off computer", then again "Turn off".)
All in all this procedure takes less than one second and I don't need to navigate the mouse cursor anywhere, nor do I have to wait for any menus to open, since my pressing of the keys are already in the memory. Having pressed these keys I can just get off the computer and it will shut down when I'm already gone.
In any place that I can use keyboard shortcuts like these, I will, since they mean that I don't have to wait for menus to pop up, as is the case when moving the mouse over a menu.
But your idea is still a good one for us lazy people, aka. Practical People.
;)
P.S. I guess that if you have a Shortcut on your Start Menu that starts with the letter 'U', you would have to press 'U' twice or more to get to the proper menu (+press Enter). I'd recommend changing the name of that other shortcut to not begin with 'U'.
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