Hi,
I've been hesitating to ask this, because I'm afraid I may be missing
something obvious, and I don't wish to be insulting if there's some sort
of
serious problem I don't know about that needs solving. But I'll ask
anyway,
because I'm so curious after following this thread. First of all, how
could
it be that people are skilled enough with their computers to be
participating in a mailing list like this one, and yet don't know how to
shut down their computers even in the standard manner? I honestly don't
understand that. Aren't basic instructions provided when someone gets a
computer? You just exit your running applications and, now on the
desktop,
either put up the Start menu by pressing the left Start key, or the
Windows
key on the right, or Control Escape. Then press U for the Shut Down
command
and then choose U from the dialogue that opens, unless you want to
restart,
which means pressing R or alt R, and so forth, just as the dialogue
instructs you. Or, as some folks have said, you can just exit your
running
applications so that you're just on the desktop, and then press the good
old
Alt F4 keystroke combo that's a nearly universal way to exit something in
Windows, and then respond to that same dialogue with your choice as
described above.
either of these two methods takes far less time to execute than to
describe,
just a matter of a few seconds and a few keystrokes that become second
nature without much effort. So, I'm wondering, why especially does
anyone
need a hotkey for any of this?
as I said above, this is a sincere question, not sarcastic. Can anyone
explain what inspired this thread so that I can get whatever it is that
I'm
missing, in case it's a window onto a new, critically efficient computer
operation I might profit by learning?
thanks,
Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: "harry bates" <hdbates@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 6:50 AM
Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
Unfortunately, I deleted the message that gave the steps to shutdown the
computer, but I do wish to say thanks for the one that said:
If you have a windows xp system, this really works:
press the windows key and then press the letter "u" twice to shutdown or
windows key u and then r to restart.
The shutdown command for a windows xp system is then:
windows key,u,u to shutdown or
windows key,u,r to restart.
Thanks for providing this quicker and better way of doing the shutdown.
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