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  How to create Shutdown Shortcut in Windows  

Windows 8's start menu interferes with the old, convenient method of using keyboard shortcuts (via the Windows key) to quickly restart or shut down your machine.

 Here's a little trick that sort of brings back that time saver. All you need to do is pull up the power tools menu with WIN + X , then U and the underlined letter for the shut down option of your choice.

The procedure for Windows 7 is very similar to that of Vista and XP, but now you can pin those freshly created shortcuts to the Start Menu or the Taskbar or both.

Where Windows 7 displays its power button in a prominent place on its Start Menu, both Windows and the new Windows 8.1 make you perform several actions just to turn your computer off and they're all buried. 

Fortunately, there's an easy way to put the shutdown and restart functions just one click away from the desktop and Start screen.

Just create shortcuts for both actions using the following steps:

Also read:- How to create Restart shortcut in Windows

1. Navigate to the desktop.

2. Right click on the desktop and select New=> Shortcut.

3. A shortcut menu appears.

4. Create new Shortcut

5. Enter shutdown -s -t 60 c "WARNING a virus has been detected on your Computer System, initiate emergency shutdown" in the location box and hit Next. 

7. Enter a name for the shortcut and click Finish. A new shortcut will appear on your desktop.

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8. Name your shortcut [example: shutdown]  and click Finish.

9. Right click on the shortcut and select Properties. A dialog box appears.

10. Click Change Icon under the Shortcut tab then Click Ok in warning box that says shutdown.exe contains no icons.

12. Click Change Icon. Select an Icon from the list of available images Click Ok twice (once to close the Change Icon window and once to close Properties window).

13. Your shortcut will now have an icon. Choose the Icon for Your Shortcut

14. Right click the shortcut and select Pin to Start. The shutdown icon will now appear on your Start  screen. Pin to Start.

15. Drag the shutdown icon to a prominent place on your Start screen. Right click the icon and select Pin to Taskbar if you want the shortcut to live on your desktop's taskbar as well. The Shutdown icon can be pinned to taskbar.

 Alternative:-

 Once you're on the desktop (WIN + D), hit Alt+F4 to bring up the shut down menu, but the above option is quicker

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