Shutting down

So far my biggest complaint is the shut down process. If I am working from
the "desktop" it takes three steps to get to the power off button. Is there
any way to put it into one of the tiles or onto the task bar? From the
desktop it seems to take a couple of tries to get the "Charms" bar to come
up. If I'm in a hurry it is especially annoying. (Where in the heck did
they come up with that name?)

I'm glad I only put this mess on one computer. It will be a long time and
many improvements before I will even think about putting it on my other
computers. Actually, I am very happy with Windows 7--I am just a sucker for
anything new that comes along--I had to give Windows 8 a try. I'm not ready
to take it off the one computer, I will give it more time to see if I can
get my brain wrapped around the way this OS works.

1. Navigate to the desktop.
2. Right click on the desktop and select New Shortcut (A shortcut menu
appears)
3. Enter shutdown /s /t 0 (that’s a zero) in the location box and hit Next.
4. Enter the name Shutdown in the box and click Finish.
5. Right click on the Shortcut icon on the desktop and select Properties.
6. Click Change Icon under the Shortcut tab then Click Ok in warning box
that says shutdown.exe contains no icons.
7. Select an Icon from the list of available images. Click Ok twice (once
to close the Change Icon window and once to close Properties window). Your
shortcut will now have an icon.
8. Right click the shortcut and select Pin to Start. The shutdown icon will
now appear on your Start screen.
9. Drag the shutdown icon to a prominent place on your Start screen. I
recommend putting it in the first column to the left so you will always see
it.
10. Right click the icon and select Pin to Taskbar if you want the shortcut
to live on your desktop’s taskbar as well.

Repeat the previous steps to create a Restart button. Use the command
shutdown /r /t 0 in the location field.

"apuzzler" wrote in message ...

So far my biggest complaint is the shut down process. If I am working from
the "desktop" it takes three steps to get to the power off button. Is there
any way to put it into one of the tiles or onto the task bar? From the
desktop it seems to take a couple of tries to get the "Charms" bar to come
up. If I'm in a hurry it is especially annoying. (Where in the heck did
they come up with that name?)

I'm glad I only put this mess on one computer. It will be a long time and
many improvements before I will even think about putting it on my other
computers. Actually, I am very happy with Windows 7--I am just a sucker for
anything new that comes along--I had to give Windows 8 a try. I'm not ready
to take it off the one computer, I will give it more time to see if I can
get my brain wrapped around the way this OS works.

apuzzler wrote:

So far my biggest complaint is the shut down process. If I am working from
the "desktop" it takes three steps to get to the power off button. Is there
any way to put it into one of the tiles or onto the task bar? From the
desktop it seems to take a couple of tries to get the "Charms" bar to come
up. If I'm in a hurry it is especially annoying. (Where in the heck did
they come up with that name?)

Press the power button on the computer.

On 30/10/2012 5:35 PM, G. Morgan wrote:
apuzzler wrote:

So far my biggest complaint is the shut down process. If I am working from
the "desktop" it takes three steps to get to the power off button. Is there
any way to put it into one of the tiles or onto the task bar? From the
desktop it seems to take a couple of tries to get the "Charms" bar to come
up. If I'm in a hurry it is especially annoying. (Where in the heck did
they come up with that name?)

Press the power button on the computer.


That's a good way to lose all your unsaved data.

--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK www.galen.org.uk


Did you hear what happened at the Irish sheepdog trials? 35 were found
guilty!

On 30/10/2012 5:25 PM, Steve wrote:
1. Navigate to the desktop.
2. Right click on the desktop and select New Shortcut (A shortcut menu
appears)
3. Enter shutdown /s /t 0 (that’s a zero) in the location box and hit Next.
4. Enter the name Shutdown in the box and click Finish.
5. Right click on the Shortcut icon on the desktop and select Properties.
6. Click Change Icon under the Shortcut tab then Click Ok in warning box
that says shutdown.exe contains no icons.
7. Select an Icon from the list of available images. Click Ok twice (once
to close the Change Icon window and once to close Properties window). Your
shortcut will now have an icon.
8. Right click the shortcut and select Pin to Start. The shutdown icon will
now appear on your Start screen.
9. Drag the shutdown icon to a prominent place on your Start screen. I
recommend putting it in the first column to the left so you will always see
it.
10. Right click the icon and select Pin to Taskbar if you want the shortcut
to live on your desktop’s taskbar as well.

Repeat the previous steps to create a Restart button. Use the command
shutdown /r /t 0 in the location field.

"apuzzler" wrote in message ...

So far my biggest complaint is the shut down process. If I am working from
the "desktop" it takes three steps to get to the power off button. Is there
any way to put it into one of the tiles or onto the task bar?

Install the Classic Shell program - that gives you back all the shutdown
buttons and original menus. It will also skip straight past all that
Metro nonsense when you start up. That, or a similar program, is the
only way I could get Windows 8 to be usable.



--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK www.galen.org.uk


I can't see the point in the theatre. All that sex and violence. I get
enough of that at home. Apart from the sex, of course. - Baldrick -
Sense and Senility

On Windows 8, it performs an account logoff and shutdown.

Fyi..
Alt F4 which provides the option Shutdown, Restart, Logoff etc...continues to work from the desktop UI



--
....winston
msft mvp mail


"Bob Henson" wrote in message ...



On 30/10/2012 5:35 PM, G. Morgan wrote:
apuzzler wrote:

So far my biggest complaint is the shut down process. If I am working from
the "desktop" it takes three steps to get to the power off button. Is there
any way to put it into one of the tiles or onto the task bar? From the
desktop it seems to take a couple of tries to get the "Charms" bar to come
up. If I'm in a hurry it is especially annoying. (Where in the heck did
they come up with that name?)

Press the power button on the computer.


That's a good way to lose all your unsaved data.

--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK www.galen.org.uk


Did you hear what happened at the Irish sheepdog trials? 35 were found
guilty!

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:36:32 +0000, Bob Henson wrote:

On 30/10/2012 5:35 PM, G. Morgan wrote:
apuzzler wrote:

So far my biggest complaint is the shut down process. If I am working from
the "desktop" it takes three steps to get to the power off button. Is there
any way to put it into one of the tiles or onto the task bar? From the
desktop it seems to take a couple of tries to get the "Charms" bar to come
up. If I'm in a hurry it is especially annoying. (Where in the heck did
they come up with that name?)

Press the power button on the computer.


That's a good way to lose all your unsaved data.

Normally (in prior versions) the power button enters the proper shutdown
sequence, or at least can be configured to do so.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:04:44 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:36:32 +0000, Bob Henson wrote:

On 30/10/2012 5:35 PM, G. Morgan wrote:
apuzzler wrote:

So far my biggest complaint is the shut down process. If I am working from
the "desktop" it takes three steps to get to the power off button. Is there
any way to put it into one of the tiles or onto the task bar? From the
desktop it seems to take a couple of tries to get the "Charms" bar to come
up. If I'm in a hurry it is especially annoying. (Where in the heck did
they come up with that name?)

Press the power button on the computer.


That's a good way to lose all your unsaved data.

Normally (in prior versions) the power button enters the proper shutdown
sequence, or at least can be configured to do so.

Two things I should have said:

1. My pronouncement above needs an "IIRC".

2. The hardware reset button is *not* so kind...It causes an instant
restart without giving Windows a chance to catch the signal.

3. (I can't count!) The power switch on the back of the computer also is
a hard switch that shuts down the power supply.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:19:20 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:04:44 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:36:32 +0000, Bob Henson wrote:

On 30/10/2012 5:35 PM, G. Morgan wrote:
apuzzler wrote:

So far my biggest complaint is the shut down process. If I am working from
the "desktop" it takes three steps to get to the power off button. Is there
any way to put it into one of the tiles or onto the task bar? From the
desktop it seems to take a couple of tries to get the "Charms" bar to come
up. If I'm in a hurry it is especially annoying. (Where in the heck did
they come up with that name?)

Press the power button on the computer.


That's a good way to lose all your unsaved data.

Normally (in prior versions) the power button enters the proper shutdown
sequence, or at least can be configured to do so.

Two things I should have said:

1. My pronouncement above needs an "IIRC".

2. The hardware reset button is *not* so kind...It causes an instant
restart without giving Windows a chance to catch the signal.

3. (I can't count!) The power switch on the back of the computer also is
a hard switch that shuts down the power supply.

Apparently I do recall correctly.

I pressed the power button and my computer went through the normal
Windows shutdown procedure (Win 7).

I also Googled 'shutdown button Windows 7' and found this advice from
Microsoft:
http://windows.microsoft.com/is-IS/w...-your-computer

shortened to:
http://tinyurl.com/8mfqe5j

The article is careful to distinguish between the hardware button on the
computer case and the software button on the Start Menu.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

apuzzler wrote:
So far my biggest complaint is the shut down process. If I am working
from the "desktop" it takes three steps to get to the power off button.
Is there any way to put it into one of the tiles or onto the task bar?
From the desktop it seems to take a couple of tries to get the "Charms"
bar to come up. If I'm in a hurry it is especially annoying. (Where in
the heck did they come up with that name?)

I'm glad I only put this mess on one computer. It will be a long time
and many improvements before I will even think about putting it on my
other computers. Actually, I am very happy with Windows 7--I am just a
sucker for anything new that comes along--I had to give Windows 8 a try.
I'm not ready to take it off the one computer, I will give it more time
to see if I can get my brain wrapped around the way this OS works.

You can put a shortcut here so it's a tile:
C:\Users\YOU\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Sta rt Menu

I use ccleaner and use the shortcut "C:\Program
Files\CCleaner\CCleaner64.exe" /AUTO /SHUTDOWN and it cleans and turns
off the PC. You can designate cookies to save in options.



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apuzzler wrote:
So far my biggest complaint is the shut down process. If I am working from the "desktop" it takes three steps to get to the power off button. Is
there any way to put it into one of the tiles or onto the task bar? From the desktop it seems to take a couple of tries to get the "Charms" bar to
come up. If I'm in a hurry it is especially annoying. (Where in the heck did they come up with that name?)


Place a Shutdown shortcut on your desktop and all your frustrations will melt away

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...windows-vista/

FD

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:57:24 -0400, RonP wrote:


You can put a shortcut here so it's a tile:
C:\Users\YOU\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\St art Menu


Do you happen to know where I can put a shortcut that will be seen by
all users of the PC? There used to be a common folder for this but
can't find it now...
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JR wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:57:24 -0400, wrote:


You can put a shortcut here so it's a tile:
C:\Users\YOU\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Sta rt Menu


Do you happen to know where I can put a shortcut that will be seen by
all users of the PC? There used to be a common folder for this but
can't find it now...
---//---

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
--------------------------
Comparisons of sizes: W40k vs other models
http://www.pbase.com/hammerbolt/compare

There is a hidden default folder, I believe its what you're looking for.
Explorer, view tab, far right "hidden" tick box.



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On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 06:56:53 -0400, RonP wrote:



JR wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:57:24 -0400, wrote:


You can put a shortcut here so it's a tile:
C:\Users\YOU\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Sta rt Menu


Do you happen to know where I can put a shortcut that will be seen by
all users of the PC? There used to be a common folder for this but
can't find it now...
---//---

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
--------------------------
Comparisons of sizes: W40k vs other models
http://www.pbase.com/hammerbolt/compare

There is a hidden default folder, I believe its what you're looking for.
Explorer, view tab, far right "hidden" tick box.


That was dumb of me... thanks
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"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
--------------------------
Comparisons of sizes: W40k vs other models
http://www.pbase.com/hammerbolt/compare

On 31-Oct-12 2:56 AM, apuzzler wrote:
So far my biggest complaint is the shut down process. If I am working
from the "desktop" it takes three steps to get to the power off button.
Is there any way to put it into one of the tiles or onto the task bar?
From the desktop it seems to take a couple of tries to get the "Charms"
bar to come up. If I'm in a hurry it is especially annoying. (Where in
the heck did they come up with that name?)

I'm glad I only put this mess on one computer. It will be a long time
and many improvements before I will even think about putting it on my
other computers. Actually, I am very happy with Windows 7--I am just a
sucker for anything new that comes along--I had to give Windows 8 a
try. I'm not ready to take it off the one computer, I will give it more
time to see if I can get my brain wrapped around the way this OS works.
When you're on the desktop, press Alt-F4. That brings up a shut down
dialog. For my 2 cents worth, i don't think you really don't wanna have
a single-step shutdown that doesn't give you a chance to change your
mind if you accidentally invoke it.