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How to Turn Off Windows OS in One Click?

By default, if you want to turn off the Windows OS on a PC, laptop, or server, there are usually three stages to do that. You will press the Start button first, then press the Power button, and after that select the Shut down option. But you can turn off the Windows OS just by pressing one click.

 

Problem

How to turn off windows OS in one click?

 

Solution

The following steps to turn off the Windows OS in one click:

1. Create a shortcut

Go to the desktop, then right click and select NewShortcut as shown below:

Click New – Shortcut in the desktop

 

2. Write a script

Write the script below:

shutdown.exe -s -t 00 -f

 

In the section as shown below:

Write the script

 

Then press the Next button, and then there will be a display as below:

Create a name for the shortcut

 

You can change the name for the shortcut, and after that, press the Finish button, then there will be a display as below:

Display of the shortcut icon

 

3. Change the icon

Right-click on the icon, select Properties as shown below:

Click the Properties of the icon

 

Then click Change Icon, there will be a display as below:

Click the change Icon

 

There will be a display as below:

Click the OK button

 

Click the OK button and after that,, you can choose the icon you like, but I chose the icon in the red box, press OK, then there will be a display as below:

Choose the icon

 

The shortcut icon will change to what you chose in the previous section. After that, press OK, the shortcut icon will change the image according to what you choose.

The icon is changed

 

4. Move the icon

Move the icon to the taskbar by dragging it as shown below:

Drag the icon

 

After the icon has been moved to the taskbar, you can delete the icon from the desktop.

5. Test the result

After that, try clicking the icon in the taskbar, and your Windows OS should do the shutdown process.

 

Note

In the second part of the script writing, the time used is 0, so there is no time lag after you click the icon with the shutdown process. You can change it to the time you want, for example, to 5 seconds, so that the script becomes like below:

shutdown.exe -s -t 5 -f

 

Then there will be a break of 5 seconds after you finish clicking the icon and the shutdown process.

 

References

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