How To Create A Log Off,Shutdown and Restart Shortcut On Your Desktop?

How To Create A Log Off,Shutdown and Restart Shortcut On Your Desktop?

Logging Off,shutting down and restarting a computer consumes a lot of our time and for those people who are on the go,hate to wait here's a tip you might find useful :)

Instead of waiting for the computer to shut all the programs down from your Start Menu,You can create a shortcut on the desktop to do it quickly. You can create a restart,shutdown or a log off icon on your desktop which will work a lot quicker than using the buttons in the start menu.


Here's the step by step:

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 Planet"
This is my favorite code. It will shutdown in 15 seconds and have a message in the box saying "Goodbye Planet" ;)
The -c "bla bla bla" stands for a comment.

Added Tip:

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.