Wednesday, 10 July 2013

How to add a shutdown title to Start Menu?

Shutting down the PC in Windows is not really a straightforward matter. You have to move your mouse over to the lower-left corner and open up the Start Menu before you can select the “Shut Down” option. Using the trick stated here, you can easily pin a “Shut Down” tile to the Start screen where you can select to shut down the PC immediately.

Know How...!!!
Here are the steps to create shortcut for shut down process:
1. Go to Desktop, right click on the mouse and select New--> Shortcut.



2. Now, it asks for the location to link with shortcut. Type "shortcut /p" and click on "next", followed by "Finish".


3. Now, right click on the shortcut and select "Pin to Start Menu" or "Pin to Task bar".

Simple trick, but saves a lot of time..!!Try it now

Note: Why did shutdown happen when "/p" is added to shut down? It is a command prompt command to shutdown the computer. Here is more info:
Syntax
      SHUTDOWN [logoff_option]  [/m \\Computer] [options]

logoff_options:
    /i         Display the GUI (must be the first option)
    /l         Log off. This cannot be used with /m or /d option
    /s         Shutdown
    /r         Shutdown and Restart
    /a         Abort a system shutdown.
               (only during the time-out period)
    /p         Turn off the local computer with no time-out or warning
               (only with /d)
    /h         Hibernate the local computer (only with /f )
    /e         Document the reason for an unexpected shutdown of a computer

Tip: Each time Windows is shut down or restarted manually, including via the shutdown command, the reason, type of shut down, and [when specified] comment are recorded in the System log in Event Viewer. Filter by the USER32 source to find the entries.

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