Most of us, at the first taste of Vista complained after we attempted to shutdown our laptop, later to find out that it was just on sleep mode. If you remember, I recently posted an article about Windows Vista Power Buttons and how to tweak it to your likes and preferences. Now we’re taking it to the next step and we’re gonna create a shortcut for a more faster shutdown and restart without navigating the Windows Vista Start Menu.
- First Right-click on the desktop -> select New -> Shortcut
- On the shortcut box for the location, enter these commands, which correspond to the certain command
To Shutdown Computer
Shutdown.exe -s -t 00
To Restart Computer
Shutdown.exe -r -t 00
After you’ve enter the command click the next button and name the shortcut. Of course, for easier recall of the names use Restart Computer ( well, to restart the computer 
) and so on.
Click Finish, the shortcut will now appear on your desktop ready and waiting.
Now you can either go with the default icon or you can change shortcut icon. Here’s how to do it.
- Right-click on the shortcut icon -> select properties.
- Click the Change Icon button
- Pick the icons in the system, or Browse for more icons that is more to your liking
and that’s it. You’re done.
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