Friday, July 30, 2010

Create a Shutdown/Reboot/LogOff Icon

Create your own icon for shutting ,restarting windows.

Windows xp has a program called shutdown.exe which allows to create a icon for shutdown.
To create an icon just follow the following steps:

1)Right click on an open area of the desktop
2)Select New -> Shortcut
For shutdown:
* Enter in shutdown -s -t 00
For Restart 
*Enter shutdown -r -t 00 
For Logging off
*Enter shutdown -l -t 00
Here 00 indicates the time in sec. e.g. 10- will shutdown PC after 10 sec
3)Press the Next button
4) name the shortcut as u wish .
5) Click on the Finish button.

Here -s shutdowns the computer
-r restarts
-l log offs
-a it aborts the shutdown
-f forces to close all applications
-t xx sets the timer to shutdown in certain no of seconds...xx =seconds ,say 20

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