First, create a shortcut on your desktop by right-clicking on the desktop, choose New, and then choose Shortcut. Next window will popup to Create Shortcut Wizard. Type ‘shutdown’ in the box that asking for the location of the shortcut. After you create the shortcut, double-click to shut down your PC. Shut down is simply as that. But you can do much more with a shutdown shortcut than merely shutting down your PC. You can add any combination of several switches to do extra duty, like this: 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. Here is the lists all of them and describes their use. You can 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: Displays a message in the System Shutdown window. A maximum of 127 characters can be used. The message must be enclosed in quotation marks. Few more switches that you can try by combining this command. -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 : “message text” -r : Reboots the PC.
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