Windows 8 Tutorial - Create Shutdown and Restart Icons

This is a short tutorial demonstrating how to create a Shutdown and Restart icon on your desktop in Windows 8. People have been complaining about how it is more difficult to figure out how to shutdown the PC in Windows 8 than in previous versions of Windows.

 

Here are the commands you must paste into the shortcuts for them to work.

 

Shutdown:

  C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -s -t 00

 

Restart:

  C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -r -t 00

 

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