**How to Shut Down/Restart Windows 8 In Just One Click. Windows 7 displays its power button in a noticeable place on its Start Menu, In Windows 8 you Have to perform four steps to turn off your computer. To get to the power button in the new OS, you must pull out the Charms menu, click the Settings charm, click the Power button and then select Shutdown or Restart. However, there’s an easy way to put the shutdown and restart functions just one click away from the desktop and Start screen. Just create shortcuts for both actions using the following steps: 1.Right Clickon the Desktop and SelectNew –> Shortcut. A Shortcut menu Appears. 2. Entershutdown /s /t 0(Zero) in the location box and hit Next 3. Enter a name for the shortcut and clickFinish. A new Shortcut will appear on your desktop. 4.Right click on the shortcut and select Properties.A dialog box appears. 5. Click Change Iconunder the Shortcut tab thenClick Ok in warning boxthat says shutdown.exe contains no icons. 6.Select an Iconfrom the list of available imagesClick Ok twice(once to close the Change Icon window and once to close Properties window). Your shortcut will now have an icon. 7.Right click the shortcut and select Pin to Start.The shutdown icon will now appear on your Start screen. 8.Drag the shutdown icon to a prominent place on your Start screen.We recommend putting it in the first column to the left so you will always see it. 9.Right click the icon and select Pin to Taskbarif you want the shortcut to live on your desktop’s taskbar as well. 10.Repeat the previous steps to create a Restart button.Use the command “shutdown /r /t 0″ in the location field #Parky
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 05:59:29 +0000
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