How to create shutdown shortcut in Windows 7

Like windows XP and Vista we can create shortcut for shutdown but now you can pin those freshly created shortcuts to the Start Menu or the Taskbar or to both.








Creating a shortcut

First, right-click on a clear spot on the desktop and navigate to New Shortcut as shown.

When you click the Shortcut menu item, you will arrive at the input screen. This is where you will enter the specific command strings to make your new shortcut do what you want it to do.

For our example, we will enter the specific command that will shut down a Windows PC. Type the following command into the box and then click Next.

The next screen asks you to name the shortcut. I suggest you name the shortcut to correspond to the action it will perform. In this case, we name it Shutdown.

Now you can  give these shortcuts an icon that will help you to remember what it is they do. In Windows 7, changing an icon is similar to how you changed icons in previous versions of the operating system.

Right-click on the icon in question to get the context menu shown and then navigate to the Properties menu item.

From the Properties , select the Change Icon button.

The next screen will show you a list of potential icons, choose the one you want to use and click the OK button twice.

That's it now you have created the shortcut for shutdown

One of the nice features of Windows 7 is that you can pin your new shortcut to the Start Menu and/or to the Taskbar.