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Need a hotkey to shut down the system in one felt swoop!
-----Original Message----- Hi folks, I have a client who is technically challanged and wants a hot key to shut down the XP Home computer. In other words, he thinks it's too much trouble to click on Start, Turn Off the Computer, and then Turn Off...... He seems to think it's a conspiracy or something..... Thanks in advance for your help. Jill . Quote: it's a conspiracy or something..... Oh... but it is!!! Anywho... I have had a few clients that were physically handicapped. This is what I did for them it should work just as well for your client. To add a shortcut to the desktop for either "Logoff or Shutdown": Right click on the desktop and click create shortcut Click on Browse Find C:\Windows\System32 and open this folder. Scroll down until you locate "Logoff.exe" click Ok. The name should appear the same (You could actually delete the ".exe" out since it has no meaning to the customer. Do the same for "Shutdown": Right click on desktop Create shortcut Click Browse Locate C:\Windows\System32 Locate "Shutdown.exe" within this folder click ok. Rename to Shutdown. The shortcuts are added to the desktop. You could also change the icon appearance to match that from the start menu. Right click on one of the icons Select "Properties" Click on the "Shortcut" Tab at the bottom of the screen click on the button that says "Change Icon" an error will pop up and state that this file does not have any icons associated with it, just ignore this and click ok. Now, a selection of icons will be available. Select the Icon that you want to correspond for Logoff and Shutdown. Logoff is the Yellow Square with the key in the middle and Shutdown is the red square with the close/open circuit. If you want to associate a shortcut key with these icons: Right click on the icon select "Properties" Click "Shortcut" tab in the middle of this dialog there should be a command line for "Shortcut key" enter whatever... F12 or F11 or a combination ctrl+alt+s or ctrl+alt+l If they just want to logoff for the time being you can have them select the "Windows Key" and "L" at the same time. This will log off there profile. A lot of work... for a simple task :/ ~XT |
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