Create One-Click Shutdown and Reboot Shortcuts

15 August 2008 5 Comments Posted By Ashik

This is really very easy one but very effective one. Enjoy it!

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.

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 “I ll 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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5 Comments »

Paolo said:

You forgot to mention on which OS this trick works.
I tryed on my win2k and the shutdown command is missing!

# 21 August 2008 at 7:19 pm

redson said:

shutdown command doesn’t exit in win2k. It works in XP/2003/Vista. I wana add something here – if you wana abort that shutdown you can use -a.

# 27 August 2008 at 12:08 am

rajesh said:

For threatening the user u can even add “ur pc is hacked” or “Trojan caused reboot”….works great..

# 2 September 2008 at 10:56 am

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# 10 November 2008 at 12:01 am

shivareddy said:

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i hope this will convence u and,,, make sence while posting a hacking tricks
with regards….
shivareddy

# 11 April 2009 at 7:15 pm

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