Buried deep inside Windows XP lurks a little-known program calledshutdown that shuts down your system in a very fast - but orderly
- way.
Here's how to put an icon on your desktop that'll shut down your
machine quickly:
1. Right-click any empty location on your desktop.
2. Click New, Shortcut. The Create Shortcut Wizard appears.
3. In the Type the Location of the Item box, type shutdown -s
-t 0
It's important that you put spaces before each hyphen, that
you have no spaces after each hyphen, and that you use a zero at
the end.
4. Click Next.
5. In the Type a Name for This Shortcut box, use a name that
will remind you that this button is for a very quick shut down.
6. Click Finish. You have a new shortcut on your desktop.
7. Right-click the shortcut and click Properties. Click the
Change Icon button.
8. Pick an appropriate icon for the shortcut and double-click
it.
9. Click OK, and your new, quick shut down shortcut appears on
the desktop.
To test the new, fast shut down icon, make sure no programs are
running, and double-click it. On a typical machine, you see the
log-off screen in about three seconds, and after another two or
three seconds, you get the "It is now safe to turn off your
computer" message.
This isn't a leisurely process. Windows gives you a short period
of time to save changes in your Office documents, and other
applications quit in an orderly way.
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