Shutdown PC From Desktop Icon: 3 Quick steps

The following steps will allow you to create a desktop icon to shutdown your PC!

Step 1

Right click on Desktop. Click on New > Shortcut

Step 2

On the pop-up, type the exact words and click next: shutdown.exe -s

Step 3

Give any name of the new icon created. Voila!

• The shutdown.exe -s command means to shutdown PC whereas shutdown.exe -r means restarting your computer. You can replace s by r or create a new shortcut for restart.

• Computer shall shutdown PC in 30 seconds with shutdown.exe -s command. If you want to increase the time to 90 seconds, here is the code: shutdown.exe -s -t90. You just have to add -t and suffix the seconds.

You can Hibernate, Sleep or even lock your computer using the above methods. Just change these codes in step 2:

• Hibernate code: rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll,SetSuspendState

• Sleep code: rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0 

• Computer Lock code: Rundll32.exe User32.dll,LockWorkStation

• You can now see that a desktop shortcut is created that will Shutdown PC.

  
  
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