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.

Increase Performance of Computer by disabling Unnecessary Services

Windows automatically starts up some services in the background. Most of these services are unused by common PC users. This tends to slow down the booting time and it can also be heavy on important resources like CPU and RAM. Here are some listed unnecessary services which you can safely disable (if not used) which can speed up the performance of your computer to a certain extent. Try them at your own risk. We would suggest that you check the description of each service on the Internet before you disable them and also try disabling them one at a time.

In order to disable these services..

1. Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services
2. Choose the required service you want to disable
3. Double Click on the service
4. Under startup type, Select disable.

In this way you can stop the starting of this unused services which will speed up your computer. The list of unnecessary services is as follows..

• Alerter,
• Application Management,
• Background Intelligent Transfer Service,
• Clipbook,
• Error Reporting Service,
• Fast User Switching,
• IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service,
• Indexing Service,
• IP SEC,
• Messenger,
• Net Logon,
• Network DDE,
• NT LM Security Support Provider,
• Performance Logs and Alerts,
• Portable Media Serial Number,
• QOS RSVP,
• Remote Desktop Help Session Manager,
• Remote Registry,
• Routing & Remote Access,
• Secondary Login,
• Smart Card,
• Smart Card Helper,
• SSDP Discovery Service,
• TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper,
• Telnet,
• Uninterruptible Power Supply Service,
• Universal Plug and Play Device Host,
• Upload Manager,
• Volume Shadow Copy Service,
• Web Client,
• Wireless Zero Configuration,
• WMI Performance Adapter.