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Different ways to shutdown ur pc

There are so many different ways to turn off your Windows XP computer, let's look at some of them:


1.
The standard approach - click the Start Button with your mouse, then
select the Turn Off menu and finally click the Turn Off icon on the
Turn Off computer dialog. blink.gif

2. Press Ctrl+Esc key or the Win key and press u two times - the fastest approach.

3.
Get the Shutdown utility from Download.com - it add the shut down
shortcuts for you. Else create them yourself using approach 4.

4.
Create a shutdown shortcut on your desktop. Right click on the desktop,
choose New Shortcut and type shutdown -s -t 00 in the area where you
are asked to specify the location of the program file. Now you can just
double click this icon to turn off the computer. The best location
would be your quick launch bar.

5. Press the Win key + R key to
open the run window. Type shutdown -s -t 00. [s means shutdown while t
means the duration after which you want to initiate the shutdown
process].

If some open processes or application won't let you
turn off, append a -f switch to force a shut down by closing all active
processes.



6. Win+M to minimize all windows and then Alt+F4 to bring the Turn Off computer dialog.

7.
Open Windows Task manager (by right clicking the Windows Task bar or
Alt+Ctrl+Del) and choose Shut down from the menu. Useful when the
Windows are not responding.


8. open task manager--->click
on shutdown--->hold the ctrl key and click on Turn off::::::: pc
will be turned off in 3 secs.. fastest method other than hard shutdown