{"id":1869,"date":"2006-12-01T17:44:38","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T12:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/12\/create-desktop-icon-for-one-click-window-xp-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2023-01-11T12:38:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T07:08:18","slug":"create-desktop-icon-for-one-click-window-xp-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/12\/create-desktop-icon-for-one-click-window-xp-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Create One Click Shutdown Button for Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you wish to shut down your windows loaded computer, you need to press <em>start &gt; Turn Off Computer &gt; Turn Off<\/em>. This 3 step process can easily be replaced by a desktop shortcut icon that shuts down your computer in one click.<\/p>\n<h2>Windows Shut Down Button<\/h2>\n<p>Here is a nice tutorial to create shortcuts on your desktop to <strong>shut down your computer<\/strong> and you do not need to be a computer expert to get it working (Although a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2012\/05\/disable-power-key-button-keyboard\/\">Power Key<\/a> might be the fastest way).<\/p>\n<p>Right-click anywhere on the D<em>esktop &gt; New &gt; Shortcut<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26607\" title=\"create-shortcut\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/create-shortcut.png\" alt=\"create shortcut\" width=\"441\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/create-shortcut.png 441w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/create-shortcut-150x107.png 150w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/create-shortcut-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You basically need to create the shortcut pointing to &#8220;<strong>shutdown -s -t 0<\/strong>&#8221; (copy and paste exactly without quotes) and you are done.<\/p>\n<p>Change the icon to the power button for added effect.<\/p>\n<p>Right-click on the new Shortcut on the desktop &gt; Properties &gt; Shortcut &gt; Change icon<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26609\" title=\"shutdown-properties\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutdown-properties.png\" alt=\"shutdown properties\" width=\"370\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutdown-properties.png 370w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutdown-properties-300x295.png 300w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutdown-properties-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26610\" title=\"shutdown-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutdown-icon.png\" alt=\"shutdown icon\" width=\"289\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutdown-icon.png 289w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutdown-icon-249x300.png 249w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutdown-icon-41x50.png 41w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now simply click the Shut down button to power off Windows XP in one click. Reminds me of Brutus which can Lock, Log Off, Restart, and Shut Down Windows in One Click. What about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/find-any-key-on-keyboard\/\">Press any key<\/a> fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you wish to shut down your windows loaded computer, you need to press start &gt; Turn Off Computer &gt;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computers","tag-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}