Tuesday 23 August 2011

How to create One-Click Shutdown icon on your desktop?

You can shutdown your computer with a single click on the desktop shutdown icon. You can set the time when your computer starts the shutdown process. A simple click on shutdown icon, close the all running applications and start shutting down properly after predefined time. This tip is very useful to save energy and time. After the execution of this command, a small window will appear to start count time of system shutdown.



Follow the given steps to create the shutdown icon:
To create a new shortcut, right click on any empty area of your desktop and go to New then Shortcut.
Now a small windows dialog box will appear with the title “Create Windows”. In the “Create Shortcut” window, type the following command.
SHUTDOWN -s -t 30

Here t 30 mean time in second, for example if you want your computer will shutdown automatically after half minute then the command will be shutdown -s -t 30.
Click Next button to type the name of this shortcut and press Finish to close it.
At the end, when you click on shutdown icon, a windows dialog box will appear with the information” This system is shutting down. Please save all work in progress and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shutdown was initiated by administrator”.

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