Normally to shutdown a computer, click on Start Button then click on Turn Off Computer then again click on Turn Off. So we have to follow three steps to shutting down a computer why not with a single click. Did you know that you can Create shortcuts on your desktop for shutdown, restart and Log off.
Follow these steps below to Create shortcut for shutdown
- Go to the desktop and right click then New Choose Shortcut.
- The Create Shortcut wizard will open.
- Type shutdown -s -t 0 then click next
(If you are an advance user then you must know that,it's a command to shutdown the computer, where Shutdown is for execute shutdown.exe in system directory, -s Shutdown the computer and -t Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds. If you want more help with this command open the command prompt and type shutdown or shutdown/? to get more)
For Restart and Log off the Procedure is same but the command line is different as bellow.- Type a name for the Shortcut Let it be Shutdown or type any name for it Click Finish.
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How to create a shutdown button on your Windows Computer |
- Now you have the Shutdown shortcut on the desktop Just Double click on it, the computer will be shutdown with 0 second delay.
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Select a Title for the Program - Windows Shutdown button |
- If you want to change the icon, right click on the icon go to Properties
- Click on Change icon it will say "%windir%\system32\shutdown.exe Contains no icons Choose an icon from the list or specify a different file" Click on OK and select an icon from the list then click OK then Click OK again.
Restart: shutdown -r -t 0
Logoff: shutdown -l -t 0
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