How To Shutdown Windows 8 Quickly?

Shut Down Windows 8 quickly

Shutting down  Windows 8 quickly by creating shut down shortcut over the desktop.

Shutting down Windows 8 the usual way involves multiple steps. You have to open the Charms bar, click "Settings", then "Power", and finally "Shut down". Here is how to create a desktop shortcut that will reduce these four steps to just one.

1. Go to the Desktop.

2. Right-click an empty spot on the Desktop.

3. Choose “New-Shortcut”.

 4. Go to the line labeled “Type the location of the item…”.

5. Enter: shutdown.exe -s -t 0 (The last character is "zero".).

6. Click “Next”.

7. Type a name like Shutdown.

8. Click “Finish”.

Once the shortcut is created, you can pin it to the Taskbar:

1. Right-click the shortcut.

2. Click “Pin to Taskbar”.

You can also place the shortcut on the Metro (Modern) interface:

1. Right-click the shortcut.

2. Click “Pin to Start”.

Start in this case refers to the Start Screen and places a copy of the shortcut along with the tiles on the Metro interface.