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.

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.

Keyboard Shortcuts in Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) for Navigation

Remote Desktop (RDC, Remote Desktop Connection or Microsoft Terminal Services Client) is an useful multi-channel protocol that allows user to connect to and administer remote computer with full screen support. However, as the Remote Desktop Connection screen is effectively running within the host Windows system desktop, users who use keyboard shortcuts frequently may get confused with keyboard shortcuts to use when working on remote PC’s desktop, or getting incorrect, erroneous or unexpected behavior with keyboard shortcuts and accelerators.
For example, Ctrl-Alt-Del keystroke combination is often used to invoke Windows Security dialog where users can run Task Manager, change password, log off, shutdown computer, lock desktop, switch user and etc. When pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del keys on keyboard, the escape interrupt sequence is always captured and processed by local Windows system, despite Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connection window is maximized into full screen mode.

Another example is Alt-Tab to switch among multiple opened windows and running tasks or processes. In complete reversal, Alt-Tab works completely on remote box when Remote Desktop Connection is opened in full screen mode, but will only switch between local windows when RDC window is restored down, where RDC window is one of the window in rotation.

To get the intended result, a slightly different keyboard shortcuts are used when applied to a remote desktop session window. Here’s a list commonly used keyboard shortcuts key combination to use in Remote Desktop Connection navigation, together with the action the shortcuts perform and equivalent keyboard shortcuts on local desktop (in brackets).

• CTRL+ALT+END: Open the Microsoft Windows NT Security dialog box (CTRL+ALT+DEL)
• ALT+PAGE UP: Switch between programs from left to right (CTRL+PAGE UP)
• ALT+PAGE DOWN: Switch between programs from right to left (CTRL+PAGE DOWN)
• ALT+INSERT: Cycle through the programs in most recently used order (ALT+TAB)
• ALT+HOME: Display the Start menu (CTRL+ESC)
• CTRL+ALT+BREAK: Switch the client computer between a window and a full screen
• ALT+DELETE: Display the Windows menu
• CTRL+ALT+Minus sign (-): Place a snapshot of the entire client window area on the Terminal server clipboard and provide the same functionality as pressing ALT+PRINT SCREEN on a local computer (ALT+PRT SC)
• CTRL+ALT+Plus sign (+): Place a snapshot of the active window in the client on the Terminal server clipboard and provide the same functionality as pressing PRINT SCREEN on a local computer (PRT SC)

Keyboard Shortcut Keys for Windows XP & Windows Vista

A 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.