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Shut down computer without clicking on Shutdown

How you shutdown your pc?

Normally what we do for this is:

• You have to move your mouse to the Start Button.
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• Click on it.
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• Move it again over Shut Down button.
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• Click on it.
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• Then move it over the necessary option and click on it.
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• Then move the cursor over the OK button and click once again.

Ah! Took a hell lot of time and that simply to shut down?

This whole process can be shortened by creating shortcuts on the Desktop which will shut down Windows at the click of a button.All you need to do is…

• Start by creating a new shortcut( right click and select New> Shortcut).
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• Then in the command line box, type -
  
  

                  C:\windows\rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindowsexec

  
  
  

  Try this and you can shut the system down in a second straight away without any warning or confirmation.
  
  
  
  
  But what if you wanna restart your system. You have two options for this.
  
  
  
  

  Restart windows

  
  

  • Follow the same orthodox process of shutingdown the system and instead of shutdown press restart.
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  • or simply create another shortcut and type under mentioned tag in the command line -
    
    

                    c:\windows\rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows
    

    
    
    

    This Shortcut on clicking will restart Windows immediately without any Warnings or those irritating confirmations.
    
    

    
    
    

    Pure trick
    

    Just imagine your friend is shuting down windows and instead of a confirmation message, he recieves a message stating:
    
    
    

    This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.

    
    
    

    This is a neat trick to play with your friends by disabling the Shut Down option in the Shut Down Dialog Box. This trick involves little editing the registry. Launch regedit.exe and go to :
    
    

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

    
    
    

    To reach there you can follow the following steps:
    
    

    • Go to start button.
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    • Go for 'run' in the list.
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    • Simply type regedit.(This will open the Registry Editor)
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    • Left hand pane will have 5 options and one of them will be HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Click on that.
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    • Now click on Software, then Microsoft, then go for windows. Now click on currentversion followed by policies and explorer.
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    • Now comes the real thing.
      
      • In the right pane look for the *NoClose Key.(If it is not already there then create it by right clicking in the right pane and selecting New > String Value.(Name it NoCloseKey)
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      • Now once you see the NoCloseKey in the right pane, right click on it and select Modify. Then Type 1 in the Value Data Box.
    
    
    

    You are done. Now if anyone tries to use the ususal way of shuting down ie. from start menu, the error message will be displayed.
    
    
    NOTE: To put the function back to normal - put the value of the above mentioned field back to 0.
    
    
    Source:Some book of Ankit Fadia that i read a long time back with hint of Gj's flavor.