How to Shutdown Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 In Just One Click

In this computer world 70% of the personal computer users are using windows operating system. There are many versions of windows but the most popular ones are windows XP & windows 7. These operating systems are very user friendly. Windows 8  and 8.1 came up with metro style and many features. But it changed many features which became a drawback say start button. In such drawbacks shutting down the windows 8 also became little time consuming. So many wanted the easy method for shutting down the windows 8.

 Shortcuts for doing tasks easily in windows:

STEP-1. To make a shutdown shortcut first right click on your desktop. Create a new shortcut. 

STEP-2.  Now in the location box just paste the below line 

shutdown.exe /s /t 00

STEP-4. Now click on next, and name the shortcut which you wish.

STEP-3. Now the shortcut is created on the desktop. Opening the shortcut will shutdown the system very quick. 

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But the icon is boring isn't it. No problem lets change it now. Just right click on the icon and you will get the properties window. Now go to shortcut tab. You will find the icon button there. Click on it and change the icon which you desire. 

That's it . We have done. We can also do some of the shutdown related works such as restart, hibernate,log off in the same method all you have to do is just change the codes that we give in the location box.

Steps For -

• Pin to Start 
• Pin to Task bar 
• Create a Restart button. 

1. Right click the shortcut and select Pin to Start. The shutdown icon will now appear on your Start screen.
   
2. 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.
   
3. Right click the icon and select Pin to Taskbar if you want the shortcut to live on your desktop’s taskbar as well.
   
   4.  Repeat the previous steps to create a Restart button. Use the command “shutdown /r /t 0″ in the location field.
   
   
   

Here are the codes for some operation that we perform using the same method: 

1) Shutdown

                   shutdown.exe /s /t 00

2) Restart

                   shutdown.exe /r /t 00

3) Log off

                   shutdown.exe /l

4) Sleep or hibernate

                   rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState

5) lock

                   rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

6) switch user

                   tsdiscon.exe

Use these codes to perform the required operations. If you feel any difficulties please let us know about it through comments and don't forget to share the post with your friends.