Creating Shortcut for Shutdown, Reboot, Logoff, Standby, Hibernate!!

To create Shortcut for Shutdown, Reboot, Logoff, Standby, Hibernate follow the instruction.

[] Creating Shutdown Shortcut

1. Right click on an empty area on your Desktop.

Figure 11.1- Shortcut Creation Process

2. Select ‘New’>’Shortcut’.

Figure 11.2- Creation of Shutdown Shortcut

3. In the blank location box of the Create Shortcut Wizard, type ‘%windir%\System32\shutdown.exe –s’ without quote and Click ‘Next’.

4. Title the shortcut something like ‘Shutdown’ and click ‘Finish’.

Figure 11.4- Customizing Icon for Shutdown Shortcut

5. To customize icon, right click on this new icon, select ‘Properties’, click the ‘Change Icon’ button and select an appropriate icon.


[] Creating Others Power related Shortcut

To create shortcut for Reboot, Logoff, Standby, Hibernate Copy/Paste the following code in step 3 like above example:

Shutdown: %windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -s
Reboot: %windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -r
Logoff: %windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -l
Standby: %windir%\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState
Hibernate: %windir%\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Hibernate