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 How
to create a shutdown, restart, or logoff shortcut on your desktop
By Mitz
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Video - How to create a shutdown, restart, or logoff shortcut on your
desktop
Instead of going to the start menu, choosing shutdown,
then waiting for the computer to shut all the programs down, you can create
a shortcut on the desktop to do it quickly. You can create a shutdown,
restart, or a logoff icon on your desktop which will work a lot quicker than
using the usual buttons in the start menu.
Here's how to create a shutdown shortcut on
your desktop
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Go to your blank
desktop
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Right click
on a blank space and a menu will appear
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Choose New
from the menu
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Then choose
Shortcut
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Where it says
type the location of the item type in shutdown.exe -s
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Then press next
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Now enter a name
for your icon. Mine is called SHUTDOWN NOW
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Press next
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The Shutdown
shortcut will be on your desktop
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Different combination you can type in when creating a
shortcut to shutdown, restart, or logoff.
Shutdown.exe -s
Shutsdown your computer in 30 seconds and will close all
programs and ask you to save all work.
shutdown.exe -r
Restarts your computer in 30 seconds.
shutdown.exe -l
This one will logoff your computer back to the welcome
screen where you will need to login again.
shutdown.exe -s -t 1
Shutsdown your computer in one second. the -t 1
tells it how long to wait. (one second in this case) You can put -t 10 or
even -t 1120.
shutdown.exe -s -t 15 -c "Goodbye
you idiot"
This is my favorite code. It will shutdown in 15 seconds
and have a message in the box saying "Goodbye you
idiot"
The -c "bla bla bla" stands for a comment.
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