4 Ways to Shut Down or Restart a Windows 7:
1.shutdown button under StartMenu:
The Common traditional method is click shutdown button under start menu. This can be find by clicking
Start button(Windows button) -> shutdown.
Incase if you want Restart the system,
Start -> click arrow at the shutdown button -> and select restart.
2. keyboard method:
An another interesting ways to shutdown or restart your Windows 7 PC without using the mouse cursor. But by using the keyboard keys. First, Make sure your all documents are saved and your system is ready to shutdown before you try it.
2a: using Arrow keys:
An Intresting method to do the shutdown without using Mouse
cursor.
Click on the Window button and press Right Arrow key now the Shutdown Button will be highlighted. Press Enter Key to select Shutdown, And Now you can see
your system will be shutting down.
Incase you want to restart your system,
Press Windows key and Press Right Arrow Key 3
times now the the popup list automatically opens the list of options contains, restart, sleep, Hibernate.
Select Restart Button, Now you can see your system will Shutting down and restarts after successful Shutdown.
2b: using Alt+F4 method:
It is also one of the method for Shutdown or restarting Windows
7 PC with alternate method in keyboard. Press Alt key in the Keyboard followed by Function key(F4). Now you can see the dialog box with options, select Shutdown or restart option in the dialog box and hit Enter key.
3. using cmd:
Using Command, you may shutdown a local computer as well
as remote computer.
In this tutorial we are going to shutdown the local computer.
Please follow this post, if you are interested in
shutdown a
remote computer.
Command:
shutdown /s /t 0
where,
/s = This option is used to shutdown the local computer.
/t xxx = This is time in seconds.(0- indicates immediate shutdown, 10- for shutdown after 10 seconds)
4. using task scheduler:
The Schedule Shutdown will be helpful when it is downloading
or installing something, And you are sure after certain hours it will be done. So you can Schedule a task shutdown with Task Schedule to automatically shutdown after mentioned time.
In order to do this,
Goto Start and type Task Scheduler and open it.
On the right side pane, click on create new task,
Give it name and a description(optional) and click Next.
When asked "When do you want the task to start", select which suits for you and Click Next.
Select the Start date and time.
Clicking Next will bring you to the Action page. Here select Start a program and click on Next.
Here type shutdown keyword to call Shutdown program from the system and add /s /f /t 0 in the Add arguments box.
Click Next and check once, click Finish.
