With no Start button or menu in Windows 8, shutting down your PC involves a rather convoluted path of launching the Charms bar on the right-hand side of your screen, choosing Settings, Power and then selecting ‘Shut down’ or Restart.
The shut-down process is much easier in older versions of Windows, and you can make it even faster with a Desktop shortcut. Right-click a blank area of the Desktop and choose New, Shortcut. Type shutdown.exe -r -t 00 into the location box, click Next and then Finish. You can now turn off your PC instantly by double-clicking this shut-down shortcut. Just remember to save your work first! To create a Restart shortcut, type shutdown.exe -r -t 00 into the location box.
In Windows 7, you can also pin the shortcuts to your Taskbar for one-click access. This tricks Works with Windows XP, Vista and 7.
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