How to create a shutdown, restart, or logoff shortcut on your desktop

By Mitz

Free computer Tips 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

1. Go to your blank desktop
2. Right click on a blank space and a menu will appear
3. Choose New from the menu
4. Then choose Shortcut
5. Where it says type the location of the item type in shutdown.exe -s
6. Then press next
7. Now enter a name for your icon. Mine is called SHUTDOWN NOW
8. Press next
9. The Shutdown shortcut will be on your desktop

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.

Notes:

• to stop the computer from shutting down type shutdown /a into the run box located in the start menu..
• -f will force everything to close immediately without asking to save anything.