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[Ice_Blue]

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell\Restart Computer]
"icon"="shell32.dll,-290"
"Position"="Bottom"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell\Restart Computer\command]
@="shutdown.exe -r -t 00 -f"

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I'm not sure if this has been posted before, but...

This will add a "Restart Computer" item to the Windows 8 desktop context menu.

Copy and paste into notepad, and save with .reg extension.
Double-click saved file to install.
No need to restart or log off.

[+Quillz]

Nice, I'll give this a try. Thanks for posting it.

[+devHead]

This will work in Windows 7 too?

[Redberry]

Working great, would be nice to add "Shutdown" and "Sleep" option also thanks

[Ice_Blue]

devHead, on 07 June 2012 - 09:52, said:

This will work in Windows 7 too?

Works like a charm in Win7

[Astrum]

So to shutdown it would be this?:
shutdown.exe -s -t 00 -f

[drazgoosh]

I know I can use the PC power button to shut down, but what would the code be for a shut down option to be added to the right click menu?

[Grinch]

Astrum, on 07 June 2012 - 16:54, said:

So to shutdown it would be this?:
shutdown.exe -s -t 00 -f

Yes.

Anyone have a method to add this to the Win+X context menu? (aka the Power User Menu)

[Stokkolm]

Alt + F4 on the desktop works also.

[Aergan]

Request: Can it be added to the Super User Menu please (and at the bottom)?

[Detection]

Ice_Blue, on 07 June 2012 - 16:39, said:

Works like a charm in Win7

Works like a Charms Bar in Windows 8

[Ice_Blue]

^

[Detection]

Haven't pressed the shutdown one yet, but I assume it will work

[+articuno1au]

For those of you that want to build your own command line calls:

-s = shutdown
-r = restart
-l = logoff
-h = hibernate (May??? be limited to Windows 8, I am unsure)
-f = force (Word/Notepad etc won't be able to stop the shutdown to ask if you want to save)
-t = time in seconds to wait before shutdown (Limited to 600 on Windows Vista only) (If the value in seconds is greater than 0, the -f flag is implied)

I use:

shutdown -f -s -t 0

ALL THE TIME. It's my baby <3

[+Quillz]

Detection, on 08 June 2012 - 14:22, said:

Haven't pressed the shutdown one yet, but I assume it will work

If I don't want any icons in the context menu, do I just leave the quotation marks blank, or should I omit them entirely?