First, create a
shortcut on your desktop by right-clicking on the desktop, choosing New, and
then choosing Shortcut. The Create Shortcut Wizard appears. In the box asking
for the location of the shortcut, type shutdown. After you create the shortcut,
double-clicking on it will shut down your PC.
But you can do
much more with a shutdown shortcut than merely shut down your PC. You can add
any combination of several switches to do extra duty, like this:
shutdown -r -t 01
-c "Rebooting your PC"
Double-clicking
on that shortcut will reboot your PC after a one-second delay and display the
message "Rebooting your PC." The shutdown command includes a variety
of switches you can use to customize it. Table 1-3 lists all of them and
describes their use.
I use this
technique to create two shutdown shortcuts on my desktop—one for turning off my
PC, and one for rebooting. Here are the ones I use:
shutdown -s -t 03
-c "Bye Bye m8!"
shutdown -r -t 03
-c "Ill be back m8 ;)!"
Switch
What it does
-s
Shuts down the
PC.
-l
Logs off the
current user.
-t nn
Indicates the
duration of delay, in seconds, before performing the action.
-c
"messagetext"
Displays a
message in the System Shutdown window. A maximum of 127 characters can be used.
The message must be enclosed in quotation marks.
-f
Forces any
running applications to shut down.
-r
Reboots the PC.
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