windows 8 Restart Windows 8 With Right-Click From Desktop

[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. :D

[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 :D thanks

[Ice_Blue]

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]

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]

Works like a charm in Win7

Works like a Charms Bar in Windows 8 :p

[Ice_Blue]

^ :laugh:

[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]

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?

[Omega192]

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?

I believe if you just leave out

"icon" = "shell32.dll,-290"

it will omit the icon.

[contextfree]

:rolleyes: The contortions you guys go through to avoid just learning how to use the damn settings charm, which you need for other stuff anyway.

[+LogicalApex MVC]

:rolleyes: The contortions you guys go through to avoid just learning how to use the damn settings charm, which you need for other stuff anyway.

That is the nature of being a power user. We make the machine work as we intend and not how someone else decides it should work.

[ajua]

I personally don't reboot or shutdown my computers that much, but this may come handy for some.

The charms bar work freat and is easy to access to perform those tasks, but it's great to have options for everyone.

[Kenneth Micallef]

i made this handy context menu long time ago. right click on my computer bring this menu!

download here > http://www.mediafire...v7qhvfxvu1dcvai

works on windows vista / 7 & 8

[Wiggz]

Nice work, but why would anyone want to make it even easier to shutdown or restart? (oh, and those commands will also bypass any configuration of updates you have waiting if clicked)

Aren't the commands simple enough to click? Plus right clicking is something I know I do an awful lot within a session. Do you really want to risk right click properties being right click, shutdown?

[WinMunkee]

It's really not that hard to shutdown/restart in Windows 8, and doesn't take "more time" as some claim. It literally takes like 2 seconds depending on method.

1. Alt + F4 on the desktop
   
2. Charms Bar > Settings > Power
   
3. Sign Out > Power Button on bottom of screen
   
4. Tap the Physical Power Button on the PC
   

[Kenneth Micallef]

It's really not that hard to shutdown/restart in Windows 8, and doesn't take "more time" as some claim. It literally takes like 2 seconds depending on method.

1. Alt + F4 on the desktop
   
2. Charms Bar > Settings > Power
   
3. Sign Out > Power Button on bottom of screen
   
4. Tap the Physical Power Button on the PC
   

or press the shutdown key on your keyboard if you have one

[MorganX]

Windows 8 has it's flaws. But nonsense issues like too hard to shutdown make me think there really are some people complaining to be complaining. If you want to shutdown, it's as fast or faster than Windows 7 just using the charm bar. If you want to sleep, just walk away. ACPI has never been more solid. This one, I just don't get.

[WinMunkee]

Windows 8 has it's flaws. But nonsense issues like too hard to shutdown make me think there really are some people complaining to be complaining. If you want to shutdown, it's as fast or faster than Windows 7 just using the charm bar. If you want to sleep, just walk away. ACPI has never been more solid. This one, I just don't get.

I have a feeling they are not as tech savvy as they claim to be.