How to quickly shutdown a PC

This tip will show you how to create a quick PC shutdown or PC restart or PC Abort icon which you can then paste on your Windows Desktop or your quick launch toolbar.

Step # 1: Right click on your desktop. Go to New –> Shortcut

Step # 2: The Create Shortcut wizard then pops up.

Here, you can type in shutdown -s -t 0 . (what you typed in here were the alphabets s and t and the number zero with spaces in between)

Step # 3: Select a title for your shortcut. In this case, I am naming it PC Shutdown. Now we have a shortcut created on our desktop

Step # 4: Right click on your shortcut. Go to Properties. In the PC Shutdown properties, Go to ShortCut tab, then click on the change Icon. Click OK

Step # 5: Choose an Icon for your Quick PC shutdown. Click OK. Click Apply in the PC Shutdown Properties. Click OK.

You are all set. Drag and drop this shortcut into your quick launch menu if you want.

Other tips: If you want to restart instead of shutdown type in shutdown -r -t 0. Other times you might want to stop windows from rebooting after installations, updates among others. For this, a shutdown -a -t 0 with a as in abort should do the trick

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