Ever calculate how many clicks required to shutdown Microsoft Windows? Three clicks(Start > Turn Off computer.. > Turn Off).
I want faster and simple way to shutdown my computer. My office PC’s keyboard does not has a “shutdown” key(which people often mis-pressed 
), so I added a Shutdown computer shortcut on windows desktop.
Create shutdown computer shortcut
- Right click on any blank space of windows desktop -> New -> Shortcut. A “Create Shortcut” window will open.
- In the blank, type in:
shutdown.exe -s -t 0
It means, shutdown and wait for Zero second. Click “Next” button for next step. - Type in whatever name you like in the blank. I use “Shutdown”. Then, click “Finish” button.
- You are done. A new shutdown shortcut is on your windows desktop!
Hey, it is not a shutdown icon like yours!
By default, the shortcut use a “unknown application” icon. We can change it, of course.
Right click on the Shutdown shortcut icon, click “Properties” -> click “Change icon…”. It will popup an alert, ignore it by clicking “Ok” button. You will get a list of icons to choose from:
Spot the Shutdown icon? Select it and click “OK” button twice. Done. Now, only need one click to shutdown computer. 
This blog is useful to understand how to manipulate our computer by using short cut terms and can learn the manipulate terms which we are not familiar.
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ReplyDeletegud work anas, ther is another way to make this shorcut accessible faster. Instead of pointing the mouse and clikin on it, simply you can assign a shortcut Key (A hotkey) to tha same shortcut. To assign a shortcut,
ReplyDelete01. just open the properties of the shortcut (Right-Click on the shortcut > Properties)
02. on the shortcut properties assight your desired shortcut key (A hotkey), I'v chosen CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S
03. Press ok
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