Saturday 1 October 2011

Shutdown or Restart Your Computer with Shortcut

You can create shortcuts to shutdown/restart your computer at a specific time.No need for any additional software. Here is the simplest shortcut, which is a really useful tip for every computer users.

Desktop shortcut for shutdown computer
Step 1: Right click on your desktop and choose “New=>shortcuts
Step 2: In the box that says “Type the location of the shortcut/item”,
type in “shutdown -s -t 60” without the quotes and click next.
Step 3: Add a name for the shortcut and you’re done.
Step 4: Change shortcut icon for identify easily(optional).

Desktop shortcut for restart computer 
Step 1: Right click on your desktop and choose “New=>shortcuts
Step 2: In the box that says “Type the location of the shortcut/item”,
type in “shutdown.exe -r -t 60” without the quotes and click next.
Step 3: Add a name for the shortcut and you’re done.

Note: The digit '60' in step 2 denotes the total time(in seconds) before it shutdown/restart. You can change it to any value.
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2 comments:

  1. what is the "-t" switch ??

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  2. it is the total time(in seconds) before it shutdown/restart..

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