Shutdown and Restart your PC by opening a shortcut file

This post explains about a technique by which you can create a shortcut file on a relevant place in your PC and then just open that file to SHUTDOWN OR RESTART your PC respectively.

To do that Just follow the following steps:

Note : - Here we have chosen the place to create shortcut on desktop(which is recommended), but you can create it any where on your PC.

• First, create a shortcut on your desktop by right-clicking on the desktop, choosing New, and then choosing Shortcut. 
• The Create Shortcut Wizard appears. In the box asking for the location of the shortcut, type shutdown. After you create the shortcut, double-clicking on it will shut down your PC.

• But you can do much more with a shutdown shortcut than merely shut down your PC. You can add any combination of several switches to do extra duty, like this:
• shutdown -r -t 01 -c "Rebooting your PC"
• Double-clicking on that shortcut will reboot your PC after a one-second delay and display the message "Rebooting your PC." The shutdown command includes a variety of switches you can use to customize it. Table 1-3 lists all of them and describes their use.
• I use this technique to create two shutdown shortcuts on my desktop—one for turning off my PC, and one for rebooting. Here are the ones I use:
• shutdown -s -t 03 -c "Byeeeeeeee!"
• shutdown -r -t 03 -c "Coming back soon"

• Switch What it does:
• -s Shuts down the PC.
• -l Logs off the current user.
• -t nn  Indicates the duration of delay, in seconds, before performing the action.
• -c "message_text"  Displays a message in the System Shutdown window. A maximum of 127 characters can be used. The message must be enclosed in quotation marks.
• -f Forces any running applications to shut down.
• -r Reboots the PC.

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