Showing posts with label Key. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Key. Show all posts

Sunday, 5 September 2010

Shortcut Keys to Shutdown and Restart your Computer

Hi Friends,
I just learned the shortcut keys to shutdown and restart our computer or laptop. Well this is not necessary but you guys know I like playing around with my computer. Don’t you think it is better if your computer shutdown or restart with just a double click of your mouse.
So get ready and follow these points to experiment, be creative yaar.

  1. On your desktop, right click>shortcut(select shortcut)
  2. You will then see a Popup Window(Create Shortcut wizard)
  3. In ‘Type the location of the item’, Key in ‘Shutdown -s -t 01′

You might be thinking what does -s -t stands for, just hold on I will explain later.
shortcut keys to shutdown, shortkut shutdown
Click ‘Next’ and you will be prompt to name the Shortcut. Give it any name you want and click ‘Finish’.
Now, whenever you hope to shutdown your Computer or laptop. Simply double click on this shortcut icon.
You can also fully customize this shortcut Icon.
Right Click>’Properties’>’Change Icon’
This allows you to change Shortcut Icon to any image you want.
If you want to create a Shortcut Icon for restarting your Computer or Laptop, Simply change -s to -r.
As s stand for shutdown while r stands for restart.
Change the number after -t to set the time of your Computer and Laptop to wait in seconds before shutting down.
You can also insert a comment by adding -c ‘Your Text’ to the line. It will display the Text you specified while counting down the time in seconds.
So how is the tricks, did you try??? Leave a message if you liked it.

Thursday, 17 May 2007

Keyboard Shortcut Keys for Windows XP & Windows Vista

microsoft.jpgA keyboard shortcut (also known as a shortcut, accelerator key, hot key, or mnemonic) is a key or set of keys that performs a predefined function. You can act faster, save time and reduce a lot of mouse work for some common computing chores using shortcut keys. Having said that, many people do not really like to use shortcut keys because it is hard to remember and find them.
Microsoft has summarized dozens of shortcut keys for Windows XP and Windows Vista users. If you are interested in being familiar with these keys, you can go to the relevant pages:

a. Windows XP go here
b. Windows Vista go here.