The one click shutdown article has gotten a lot of attention. A reader named John, has sent me a nice email with a few good tips in it…so I thought I would share it with you.
Here it is:
Hi,
Just wanted to see if you were aware of the fact that you can actually
make it a one click solution.
I ran across this ‘quick shutdown’ feature for Vista at another site,
but the process seems to be the same here as well, with one minor
difference.
In the shortcut, instead of using 00 as the time, the instructions said
to make it 01 – and also allowed for 2 different shortcuts, one for
shutdown (C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -s -t 01) and one for reboot
(C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -r -t 00). The instructions also call
for assigning it your own icons, which I did, so that my shortcuts use
the Vista Power button icon for the shutdown shortcut and the ‘play’
icon for the reboot shortcut – it makes sense to me.
Finally, the instructions also say to move the shortcuts to the
quicklaunch toolbar – the benefit of doing this is that you get
automatic single-click usage. Even better, if you do it the way I did –
name one of the shortcuts “1 – {function}” and the other “2 –
{function}”, where {function} is either reboot or shutdown, then they
will appear as the first 2 items in the quicklaunch toolbar. The
benefit of this is that now you can also, in Vista, use the [WINKEY] + #
hotkey to call up the shutdown process as well (in this case, [WINKEY]
+ 1 or 2, depending upon your choice). Of course, you may need to also
sort the quicklaunch toolbar by name *after* giving the two shortcuts
these unusual names.
I went searching to find where I could find the instructions that I used
before, but I cannot for the life of me. Suffice it to say that the
shutdown and reboot shortcuts are documented in many places, but the
addition to the quicklaunch toolbar was at a specific place, and the
naming scheme, using the numbers to always bring them to the front, was
my own addition.
Just thought you might want to know.
Enjoy.
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