[VISTA] Restart/Shutdown

Soundman

One thing I immediately noticed about Vista was the lack of a Restart function so here is a nice fix I found after a fair bit of googling that I thought I would share with you lovely Boardsies...

To create a shortcut on your desktop to restart your computer:

1) Right click anywhere on desktop and select New > Shortcut
2) For "Type the location of the item" type shutdown -r -t 0
3) Click Next, then enter a name, such as Restart My PC
4) Click Finish



To create a shortcut on your desktop to shutdown your computer:

1) Right click anywhere on desktop and select New > Shortcut
2) For "Type the location of the item" type shutdown -s -t 0
3) Click Next, then enter a name, such as Shutdown My PC
4) Click Finish


Works a treat and is that little bit quicker seeing as you don't need to access the start menu.

ethernet

From the desktop, I think Ctrl+F4 gives you the classic shutdown menu: shutdown, restart, hibernate.

Soundman

ethernet wrote:

From the desktop, I think Ctrl+F4 gives you the classic shutdown menu: shutdown, restart, hibernate.

Just checked and it's ALT + F4 that does that. I still prefer my way. Less buttons to press and drop down menus to use. You just double click on an icon on the desktop and away it goes.

petes

Plenty of time and energy saved there.

mathias

One thing I immediately noticed about Vista was the lack of a Restart function

Im confused ! Click the blue button , then the arrow beside the padlock on the bottom of the screen , restart is the fourth option from the top ! Is this not in every version of Vista ?

So its 3 clicks away , same as it was on XP !!

8T8

The shortcuts are handy but I tend to agree with mathias the restart button isn't exactly difficult to get to.

Plus if you really miss the shutdown button you can change the start menu power button which is set to sleep by default to shutdown instead.

Go into the control panel\power options\change plan settings\change advanced power settings\power buttons and lid\start menu power button

Now you can select shutdown from the menu and the button will change from the yellow sleep to a red power off in the start menu.

Saruman

Maybe he did not know about that sub menu?

hshortt

All time and effort spent will be appriciated by those looking for simple options. Well done.

That said there are a number of different ways present within the system to do the same thing. Pick what's best for you.

Cheers
Howard

Soundman

Aha. I have only been using Vista a few days now. On my google travels regarding the restart function it never mentioned that not blatantly obvious (to me anyway) sub menu. I hadn't actually seen that damn arrow. Still. I like my shiny shortcut and as someone else said, some people will like the option of having it on the desktop rather than the other perfectly acceptable options presented in the other posts. Thanks for the relevant info guys. Hope someone else liked my suggestion anyway and it suited your way of computing.

Soundman

Oh by the by, 8t8...

It wasn't actually the Shutdown function that I was missing. I had that sorted in minutes of using Vista for the first time. It was just the Restart function. I only added the other instructions for Shutdown in my original post in case anybody else liked the simplicity of having shortcuts to the function on the desktop.

ethernet

Soundman wrote:

Just checked and it's ALT + F4 that does that. I still prefer my way. Less buttons to press and drop down menus to use. You just double click on an icon on the desktop and away it goes.

You're lucky you're not greeted by an UAC promt to proceed

Soundman

ethernet wrote:

You're lucky you're not greeted by an UAC promt to proceed

First thing I disabled.