Create Shortcut in Windows for Shutdown and Restart

How to create a shortcut in Windows to Shutdown, restart and hibernate in one click? If you bored of following the same process for shutdown and restart your Windows through navigation button and several mouse clicks. Then this article will help you to create a shortcut button to shutdown, restart, hibernate or sleep your Windows 7/8/8.1 and 10 in just one click.

Create Shortcut in Windows 7/8/8.1 and 10 for Shutdown, Restart, Lock and Hibernate Your Computer

Windows 7 has a dedicated button for shutdown which lies under the start menu, whereas Windows 8 and 8.1 have shutdown and restart button on the right corner of the Windows hidden charm screen.

In order to Shutdown or restart Windows 7/8/8.1 and 10 there is no one-click button as we have for recycle bin or file explorer.

But, you can actually Create Shortcut in Windows 7/8/8.1 and 10 for Shutdown and Restart which can help you to shutdown or restart Windows in one click.

Here, I consider that you know to create a shortcut in Windows and placing it on the desired location. You can follow this link to learn to Create a Shortcut in Windows for a program, application, folder or website.

Create Shortcut in Windows 7/8/8.1 and 10 to Shutdown in one Click

Create a Shortcut in Windows step1 — Create a Shortcut in Windows

Right click on an empty place of the desktop and select new->Shortcut to open a new shortcut window.

Now type the following lines in the location box and hit next.

shutdown /s /t 0(Zero)

In some Windows, this specific code seems not to work. Well, in this case, try the following command.

shutdown -s /t 0(Zero)

Enter the desired name of the shortcut and click Finish on the next screen.

Here, Shutdown is the program that instructs the Windows to executes the command /s defines the script for shutdown and /t stand for a time in seconds. You can set and custom time just by replacing the 0(Zero) to shutdown the Windows 7/8/8.1 and 10 after the specified number of seconds.

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Create Shortcut in Windows 7/8/8.1 and 10 to Restart in one Click

This process is similar to creating the shortcut button for Shutdown. All you need to do is replace the /s or -s from the command line with /r or -r when you create a shortcut in Windows for Restart.

Right click on an empty place of the desktop and select new->Shortcut to open a new shortcut window.

Now type the following lines in the location box and hit next.

shutdown /r /t 0(Zero)

In some Windows, this specific code seems not to work. Well, in this case, try the following command.

shutdown -r /t 0(Zero)

Enter the desired name of the shortcut and click Finish on the next screen.

Save the shortcut and use it as per your requirement.

Create Shortcut in Windows 7/8/8.1 and 10 to Hibernate in one Click

Right click on an empty place of the desktop and select new->Shortcut to open a new shortcut window.

Now type the following lines in the location box and hit next.

shutdown /h

Again if the following command line doesn’t seem to work for you. Well, in this case, try the following command.

shutdown -h

Enter the desired name of the shortcut and click Finish on the next screen.

This one-click button will help you to hibernate your computer.