Thread: Quickly shutdown Windows with a simple click

If you’re in a hurry and need to power off your computer quickly, you can create a desktop shortcut to shutdown windows with a simple double-click.

To create a new shortcut in Windows XP, right-click the desktop > Select “New” > Shortcut.

When the “Create Shortcut” wizard prompts you for the location of the item, type in (without the quotes) ‘shutdown.exe -s -f -t 01‘ and click “Next”.

Rename the shortcut to anything you like.

Great tip, thanks Jani, I think I had seen this before, but forgot to write it down.

I will give that a try. It is a pita waiting for the machine to shut down properly.

HI) thats great idea, never heard about this before) so now i'll try))) wherefrom you know about this trick?)

^ I read about it in a tech magazine.

Superb Jani... I also read in a mag but unfortunately was unable to deploy hopefully i could do now by your instructions

Thanks for the tip!