Where Windows 7 displays its power button in a prominent place on its Start Menu, both Windows and the new Windows 8. To get to the power button in Windows 8, you must pull out the Charms menu, click the Settings charm, click the Power button and then select Shutdown or Restart. In Windows 8. Fortunately, there's an easy way to put the shutdown and restart functions just one click away from the desktop and Start screen.
This can be achieved either by creating shortcuts manually or using Power Shell script. Now you have successfully created a shutdown desktop shortcut in Windows 8 start screen.
Likewise, you can create shortcuts for restart, log off, sleep, lock and hibernate in Windows 8. Here are the shortcuts codes for them. You have to first replace the rundll You can also drag these shortcuts to Windows task bar see image below In case you don't want to clutter your Desktop and Windows task bar, here is another register heck which allows you to add these shortcuts in right click menu.
To get shutdown, restart and sleep shortcuts in right menu in Windows 8, requires registry edit. You can download the registry files from here.
Double click the file. If you don't like it, you can remove these registry by double clicking the remove file. Are you interested in employing one of the keyboard or power button techniques shown in this article? As always, if you have comments or information to share about this topic, please take a moment to drop by the TechRepublic Community Forums and let us hear from you. Greg Shultz is a freelance Technical Writer. Previously, he has worked as Documentation Specialist in the software industry, a Technical Support Specialist in educational industry, and a Technical Journalist in the computer publishing industry.
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Notes This shortcut is turned off by default. The following table contains common keyboard shortcuts for Windows 8.
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