There has been time when I'm in a hurry
and need to shut down my PC, fast so I can leave, I'm
sure you have too. So if you find yourself always in
a hurry, then this easy one click shutdown button how
to is for you.
There has been times when I need to do
a quick reboot because my computer is running funky.
I think you know what I'm talking about, or sometimes
we just want a quick reboot to get a fresh start.
The easy steps below will show you how
to make your own one click shutdown button and a quick
reboot button. The one click shutdown shortcuts will
be automatically put on your desktop, but to make it
even more convent you can put one or both buttons on
your taskbar. I use this technique to create two buttons,
a shutdown and reboot shortcuts button and put them
on my toolbar. Now I can shut down my computer fast,
and rebooting my computer fast with just one click.
Once you made your two shortcut buttons
on your desktop you can show your friends and family.
So they will know your are truly a computer Geek!
The Steps:
1. Shutdown shortcut:
The first step to a your one click shutdown shortcut
button, is to right-click on your desktop, now choose
New, then choose Shortcut. The Windows Shortcut Wizard
will appear. In the box that appears, in the "location
of shortcut area" type in shutdown
-s to shutdown. For the name
leave it shutdown or type in a new name like SHUTDOWN
or OFF.
2. Reboot shortcut:
The first step to your one click reboot shortcut button,
is to right-click on your desktop, now choose New,
then choose Shortcut. The Windows Shortcut Wizard
will appear. In the box that appears, in the "location
of shortcut" area type in shutdown
-r to reboot. For the name type in Reboot or
Restart.
3. After you have
create your shortcuts on your desktop, just double-click
on one to shut down or reboot your computer. Now it
time to customize your new shortcuts. Remember to
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4, Switches you
can use with shutdown shortcuts. There are some switches
you can use to customize your shutdown shortcuts.
To use the switches type in, shutdown
-s will shut down PC, shutdown
-r will reboot PC,
shutdown -f will forces any
running applications to shot down, shutdown
-l will log off the current
user, shutdown -t nn
will indicates the duration of delay, in seconds,
before performing the action, and
shutdown -c "message"
will display
a message in the System Shutdown windows, max 127
characters and must be enclosed in quotation marts.
5. I use these two technique to create
one shutdown & one reboot shortcuts on my desktop,
one for turning off my computer, and one for rebooting.
These are the ones I use:
6. Just a little more customizing. Now
your need to change the icons to a better looking
icons. Right click on your new shutdown shortcut and
pick properties on the menu. Then click on change
icon, now pick a new icon for your shortcuts. I picketed
the red icon for the shutdown shortcut and a green
icon for the reboot shortcut. The shutdown shortcuts
are automatically put on your desktop, but to make
it more convent I put them both on my toolbar. You
can move them by dragging and dropping them on to
your quick launch toolbar, it up to you.
Now you have two new one click shutdown
and reboot shortcut buttons on your desktop and or
toolbar. Easy yes! Remember to come back to WebTechGeek.com
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