Guide On Making Quick Shutdown, Restart, Lock Shortcut On Your Desktop

Today I'm gonna teach you a trick on making an easy but useful shortcuts. I'm sure that this will be useful for those who dont know this trick yet and for those who have docks and fences installed on their computer to add this to their shortcut collections.

Ok let's start on creating a shortcut and putting the code.

First, Using your computer mouse, press right-click on your desktop, then point mouse cursor to "New" and then click "Shortcut".

Creating a Shortcuts

Then a box will appear. Next, on the "location" copy and paste the command below.

Shutdown Shortcut Code : "C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -s -f -t 00" copy without the qoutes

Shortcuts dialog box Screenshot

Then after you paste the command, click "next" button below and put a name for your shortcut depending on what command you paste in. For the first one, name it as "Shutdown" then click "finish" button.

Do the same procedure above as you proceed making Restart and Lock Computer shortcut. It will only differ on the copy and paste command and naming.

Restart Shortcut Code : "C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 00" copy without the qoutes

Lock Computer Shortcut Code : “rundll32 user32.dll,LockWorkStation” copy without the qoutes.

Clicking this Icon will Shutdown your Windows Instantly. If you don’t like the Icon Image, you can customize it too. Do the following

First, right-click on the shutdown shortcut and select Properties a window will open,then  click "Change Icon button" and choose an Icon from those available,

Changing the Shortcut's Icon

Choose a Icon for your Shortcut

You can also download an icon of your choice and save it to your local drive. To use an icon of your choice simply click the browse button and specify the path where you have saved the icon.
   
Lastly Your new Shutdown, Restart, Lock Computer Icon will look like this,

Shortcut look like when finished

I hope this may help you in saving time in Turning Off and Restarting your Windows

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