First, create a shortcut on your
desktop by right-clicking on the
desktop, choosing New, and
then choosing Shortcut. The
Create Shortcut Wizard appears.
In the box asking for the
location of the shortcut, type
shutdown. After you create the
shortcut, double-clicking on it
will shut down your PC. But you
can do much more with a
shutdown shortcut than merely
shut down your PC. You can add
any combination of several
switches to do extra duty, like
this: shutdown -r -t 01 -c
“Rebooting your PC”
Double-clicking on that shortcut
will reboot your PC after a one-
second delay and display the
message “Rebooting your PC.”
The shutdown command
includes a variety of switches
you can use to customize it.
Table 1-3 lists all of them and
describes their use. I use this
technique to create two
shutdown shortcuts on my
desktop—one for turning off
my PC, and one for rebooting.
Here are the ones I use:
shutdown -s -t 03 -c “Bye Bye
m8!”
shutdown -r -t 03 -c “I ll be back
m8 ;)!” Switch
What it does -s
Shuts down the PC. -l
Logs off the current user. -t nn
Indicates the duration of delay,
in seconds, before performing
the action. -c “messagetext”
Displays a message in the
System Shutdown window. A
maximum of 127 characters can
be used. The message must be
enclosed in quotation marks. -f
Forces any running applications
to shut down. -r
Reboots the PC