Shutdown & Restart Shortcuts

Don’t you think the process of shutting down or restarting the computer consumes a lot of time??
Let’s cut-short this process…its really easy :)
Just create a shortcut to “Shutdown” or “Restart” and assign a shortcut key to it.

For Creating a Shutdown Shortcut

1. Right-click anywhere and in the menu, go to “New” and then click on “Shortcut“.
2. A dialogue box would pop-up asking for the Target or the Location of the item for which you’re creating the shortcut.
3. In that box, type “shutdown -s -t 000“. The “-t 000” in this command stands for the timer of shutdown, the “000” is the time after which Windows will Shutdown.
4. Then, give a name to the shortcut which will help you to identify it.

Now, assign a shortcut key to your shortcut…

1. Right-click on your shortcut that you made just now, and click on the “Properties”.
2. In the “Properties“, go to the “Shortcut” tab. Look for “Shortcut Key” over there.
3. In the “Shortcut Key” box, press the keys that you want to assign to your shortcut (Mine is “Ctrl + Alt + S“)

For Creating a Restart Shortcut

Follow the same steps taken for creating a Shutdown Shortcut, just replace the “shutdown -s -t 000” command with “shutdown -r -t 000” and give it a diferent name.
Then you can create a Shortcut Key using the steps given earlier.

I gurantee that if you shutdown or restart your computer using the Shortcut Keys, the time taken in the process will be 70% less than the total time that was taken before. :P