Blog Post: Adding Windows 8 shutdown/ restart shortcuts on desktop

Many people said that, Windows 8, which is the newest OS, is better than Windows 7 because, the search function had improved with the new Modern UI which is simply beautiful. But the only thing that is annoyed is the shut down icon, basically the way you turn off your PC. And traditionally, in your windows, if you were to shut down your PC or restart and log off your PC, you'll need to go setting and click power button and another thing that's even worst is that, in windows 8, there's no such a alt+f4 (shortcut for turning off the machine). So now, they have a shortcut for shutdown! either on task bar, start screen, desktop, or other locations that you can choose yourself, just simply right-click and go new shortcut. First you need to create a shortcut, you might want to find a location for your new shortcut, and then you right click, new and type in "shutdown /s /t 0" and you're done! see how easy it is? Now if you want to pin it to your task bar, you can right-click new shortcut and pin it to your task bar based on your preference. So after you had done with creating shortcuts for turning off your PC, you can now simply just click on that icon (shortcut) and it would immediately begin. IF you would like to have it even more easy to use and put it on your start screen, you can simply right click again on the shortcut and click on pin to start. Other than shutdown, you can have other switches too such as /r for instance and  /h for hibernation.

Have the "shut down" button on the screen or wherever you think you would like to put is very convenient because you wouldn't have to go many places in your PC in order to just simply "turn off" your computer, and the best thing about this is that, you can pin in on your task bar! Task bar is the place that is the most seen-able in the computer, so it would be very easy for you to turn off your computer if you pin it there. 

The advantage of doing this is that is very convenient, and the steps of making or creating this shortcut is not hard either! So people that want to try would definitely try it! (unlike other things, sometimes in order to have something fancy, it takes long and complicated process to do it). 

The disadvantage of having this is that if someone accidently removed the shortcut that you've pinned, you might forgot how to get to the place where you can turn off your computer in a traditional way. Also by doing this might slows down your computer IF you've already had many shortcuts on your desktop or task bar.

I wonder how would this work so easy that you just right click and create a shortcut for it, how does it work behind these simple steps...

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