Want to be able to click a button on your desktop to shutdown your computer instead of having to click “Start -> Turn Off Computer -> Turn Off” every single time? All you have to do is create a shortcut on your desktop that points to shutdown.exe with the right switches. When you have finished it could look something like this…
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Creating a Shutdown button:
Right click the desktop and select new -> shortcut and the Create Shortcut wizard will appear. Click the browse button and browse to C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe and click OK…
Now add the switches by typing “-s -t 0″ (without quotes, zero not the letter o, and spaces between -s & -t & 0) to the end of the text in the location box as shown below…
Now click next and finish. You will now have a functioning but ugly shutdown button on your desktop…
To make it look nicer rename the shortcut then right click, select properties, and select Change Icon to select a better icon.
Create a Restart button:
It might seem a little strange but Windows XP restarts using the same shutdown.exe file. To create a restart button follow the same steps above but use a -r switch instead of a -s switch…
After creating both shortcuts, renaming them and changing the icons, you should have something like this…
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Shutdown.exe switches: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317371
A Final Note:
If you happen to be as fanatical as I am about having nothing on the desktop, drag the new icons into the Quick Launch area of the Taskbar.
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