{"id":8429,"date":"2016-11-25T02:21:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T02:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=8429"},"modified":"2016-11-25T02:22:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T02:22:54","slug":"create-shortcut-to-shutdown-restart-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/create-shortcut-to-shutdown-restart-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create Shortcut to Shutdown \/ Restart Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

In previous post we’ve covered 7 ways to shutdown \/ restart your Windows 10 computer<\/a>. However, if those are not simple or quick enough for you, you can create a shutdown \/ restart shortcut on your desktop. The following tutorial will walk you through the steps of creating a shortcut to shutdown \/ restart Windows 10 more quickly.<\/p>\n

Tips:<\/strong> If you want to schedule your computer to shutdown or restart at specified time, please check out this article: Auto Shutdown Windows 10 \/ 8 As You Expect<\/a> <\/p>\n

How to Create Shortcut to Shutdown \/ Restart Windows 10?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Right-click any empty space on the desktop, select New<\/strong> and then Shortcut<\/strong> from the context menu.\n

    \"new-desktop-shortcut\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  2. \n

    When the Create Shortcut wizard appears, copy and paste one of following commands in the location box and click Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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    • Shutdown Computer:
      \n%windir%\\System32\\shutdown.exe \/s \/t 0<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • Restart Computer:
      \n%windir%\\System32\\shutdown.exe \/r \/t 0<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • Lock Computer:
      \nRundll32.exe User32.dll,LockWorkStation<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      \"create-shutdown-shortcut\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    • You’ll be asked to name the shortcut. I suggest you name the shortcut to correspond to the action it will perform.\n

      \"name-a-shortcut\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    • When you’ve clicked Finish<\/strong> on the above dialog, you’ll see a shortcut on the desktop. You can double-click it to immediately shut down or restart your computer.\n

      \"shutdown-shortcut-icon\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      In previous post we’ve covered 7 ways to shutdown \/ restart your Windows 10 computer. However, if those are not simple or quick enough for you, you can create a shutdown \/ restart shortcut on your desktop. The following tutorial will walk you through the steps of creating a shortcut to shutdown \/ restart Windows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1894],"tags":[3151,3150,3152],"class_list":["post-8429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-create-shutdown-shortcut-windows-10","tag-shutdown-shortcut-windows-10","tag-windows-10-restart-shortcut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8429"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8440,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429\/revisions\/8440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}