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RE: Adding a Shutdown button onto my desktop

chrisscorsese88 — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:57:03 GMT

Add a shutdown button to your sidebar: [url=http://gallery.live.com/results.aspx?pl=1&bt=1&q=shutdown]http://gallery.live.com/results.aspx?pl=1&bt=1&q=shutdown[/url]

RE: Adding a Shutdown button onto my desktop

WAW8 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:55:27 GMT

If you go to the Windows Gadget gallery, you'll see a gadget that puts a three-button panel into the sidebar. It's called Shutdown. Just click the button you want, and Vista shuts down. Can't get much easier than that.

RE: Adding a Shutdown button onto my desktop

cpemma — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:39:02 GMT

[quote][b]SwiftImmortal_1 (7/23/2007)[/b][hr]all you gotta do is create a new shortcut on your desktop. When it asks you for the Location, type in "shutdown.exe -S -t 0" (without quotations). That's all there is to it in Vista anyway...I think it's the same method in XP, too.[/quote]

The TweakVI method noted above relies on TweakVI being installed (or at least the 16k command.exe program included in it), so I'll be converting to your way. :)

The power button on the Start menu can also be changed to either Sleep, Shutdown, or Restart in Control Panel/Power Options/"Change what the power button does".

RE: Adding a Shutdown button onto my desktop

kingofnexus — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:21:30 GMT

[quote][b]SwiftImmortal_1 (7/23/2007)[/b][hr]
Oh and I'm really lazy too...all I did before I created the desktop buttons was hit the power button WITH MY TOE!!! :D:smooooth:[/quote]

SNAP me too!! rofl :w00t:

RE: Adding a Shutdown button onto my desktop

teddy939 — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:15:09 GMT

i to lazy i just leave my pc on.:D

RE: Adding a Shutdown button onto my desktop

Jason — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:33:37 GMT

[quote][b]Quiksilver (5/14/2007)[/b][hr]Now that is lazy :)

I was thinking of getting one of those "clap off" things people use to turn off lights, but i fear thats taking it to another level of lazyness :)[/quote]

You should hook your computer up to one of those. Should make for some sweet bootup messages.

RE: Adding a Shutdown button onto my desktop

SwiftImmortal_1 — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:17:21 GMT

all you gotta do is create a new shortcut on your desktop. When it asks you for the Location, type in "shutdown.exe -S -t 0" (without quotations). That's all there is to it in Vista anyway...I think it's the same method in XP, too.

...and for a restart button just change the -S to -r :cool:

Oh and I'm really lazy too...all I did before I created the desktop buttons was hit the power button WITH MY TOE!!! :D:smooooth:

RE: Adding a Shutdown button onto my desktop

Walker — Mon, 14 May 2007 09:54:03 GMT

That might be ever so slightly too much. Plus my power button is so close that it takes same effort as click start and shutdown....

RE: Adding a Shutdown button onto my desktop

Quiksilver — Mon, 14 May 2007 02:25:27 GMT

Now that is lazy :)

I was thinking of getting one of those "clap off" things people use to turn off lights, but i fear thats taking it to another level of lazyness :)

RE: Adding a Shutdown button onto my desktop

Walker — Sat, 12 May 2007 17:25:53 GMT

I just press pc shutdown button. I'm too lazy to use the mouse.

RE: Adding a Shutdown button onto my desktop

cyclic — Sat, 12 May 2007 04:28:45 GMT

Me too so here's one how to, got to http://www.totalidea.com/content/index.html and get the latest 'free' version of TweakVista install and run, down the left side menu look for Visual tweaks and 3 choices should appear in the right pane, select desktop tweaks.....etc; then when that arrives near the bottom left are all the 'make shortcut to' items I use the shutdown one which I dragged to the quicklaunch toolbar, now when shutting down I just click the little red button and off she goes............isn't the close down dialogue with the drop down box a real pain ? many times I choose to shutdown only to find I had accidentally selected 'standby', hence my search for the little red button.

There are also hoodles of other excellent tweaks within even the free version and I would recommend to anyone, just a word of caution to less advanced users, if you don't understand what will happen as the result of activating a particular then don't touch it, or at least until you look it up in the very adequate help file in the program, or even ask here.

Adding a Shutdown button onto my desktop

Quiksilver — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:08:39 GMT

Right, im a Lazy git. Clicking the start button is simply too much work for me.

So, I want a button on my desktop to shut down the laptop.

Any ideas? I tried making a .bat file to do it, gets in a loop. Im crappy at this sorta thing :)

Any help appriciated!

Cheers

Kev

And yes, as i said. Im lazy. Im the kinda guy with shortcuts to all of his drives on the desktop because im too lazy to open my computer.