How To Shutdown Windows 8 Pro

Where Windows 7 displays its power button in a prominent place on its Outset Menu, both Windows and the new Windows viii.1 brand you perform several actions just to turn your computer off and they're all buried. To get to the power button in Windows 8, you lot must pull out the Charms bill of fare, click the Settings charm, click the Power button and so select Shutdown or Restart. In Windows viii.1, you can also shut downward past right clicking on the Showtime push and selecting Close down from the Shut downward or sign out menu, but that's withal a couple of clicks away.

Fortunately, there's an easy manner to put the shutdown and restart functions just ane click away from the desktop and Start screen. But create shortcuts for both actions using the post-obit steps:

1. Navigate to the desktop.

two. Right click on the desktop and select New -> Shortcut. A shortcut menu appears.

3. Enter shutdown /s /t 0 (that'southward a cypher) in the location box and hitting Next.

Enter Shutdown /s /t 0 in the location box of the create a shortcut window.

4. Enter a proper noun for the shortcut and click Stop. A new shortcut will appear on your desktop.

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

vi. Click Modify Icon under the Shortcut tab then Click Ok in alarm box that says shutdown.exe contains no icons.

seven. Select an Icon from the list of available images Click Ok twice (in one case to close the Modify Icon window and in one case to close Properties window). Your shortcut will now have an icon.

eight. Right click the shortcut and select Pin to Start. The shutdown icon will at present announced on your Start screen.

ix. Drag the shutdown icon to a prominent place on your Start screen. We recommend putting it in the first column to the left and then you will ever see it.