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211211 2004-01-30 04:27:00 In the last couple of years I installed or somehow created a shutdown icon on mydesktop that instantly shuts down the computer without going through the Start menu.

I got this from a PC World mag but for the life of me I can't remember how I did it. I have another computer that I wish to put it on that is running Windows 98SE.

No I don't have trouble with fast shut down so that is not an issue.

Hope someone can help

Panda
pukekoe (5196)
211212 2004-01-30 04:50:00 LOL
I had the same thing on my pc a couple of years ago and would love to get it back, but I also cant rember how I did it.
Funny, all my mates laughed at me when they saw it(the shortcut that is)

mike
miknz (3731)
211213 2004-01-30 04:55:00 Well of course they would laugh. Someone clicking on an icon marked "shutdown" to shutdown. Everyone knows that you click on "Start" to stop a computer. :D Graham L (2)
211214 2004-01-30 05:28:00 Type this:
C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 2
into Notepad and save as shutdown.bat.

The number (in this case "2") signifies whether to reboot or not.

I think a 1 is to shutdown
2 is to reboot.
antmannz (28)
211215 2004-01-30 05:46:00 Why not just make it a shortcut, so you can also specify a custom icon if preferred?

There are more numbers than just 1 and 2, there are ones for logoff, maybe hibernate, standby, etc. Try through a range of numbers (starting at 0) and see what happens.
agent (30)
211216 2004-01-30 22:42:00 hi

I've got one on my pc that i set up. i just click on it and the pc shutsdown. Give me a wee while to find out where i got the info from hoe to do it..

back in 24 hours :)
JollyJackTar (5197)
211217 2004-02-01 02:16:00 Thank you very much. All done and back in action.

Peter A
pukekoe (5196)
211218 2004-02-01 04:29:00 C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindows

This is what I get when I click onto Properties of the icon I have which I click onto to shutdown

Is this what you are referring to
Iris (475)
211219 2004-02-01 06:02:00 does it work the same in all versions of windows, I used to use this shortcut in windows 98 Jacob4165 (199)
211220 2004-02-05 20:22:00 any xpers interested in this, the instuctions are here (www.tweakxp.com) Trev O (452)
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