Re: hotkey for shutdown?
- From: "Debbie Scales" <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:10:37 -0400
You guys, actually I think this was all more of an issue in windows 98. I
also don't think there is much need for creating the shutdown shortcut now.
There might still be a few reasons for it, to shut down remote servics, or
if a sighted person is using the quick launch toolbar and wants it right
there, or other such things.
Even this article at
http://aumha.org/win5/a/shutcut.php states that the preferred method now is
in the power options in control panel (if your hardware supports it).
Debbie
----- Original Message -----
From: "David The Wild-thing!" <d.h.whitehead@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
actually? first there's no real trick involved hear,
umm, the only reason I could think of creating a shortcut for shutting down
the machine is? if you lost the voice of your screen reader, and? you had no
way of restarting the speech program.
however, sometimes when the computer freezes, even a created shortcut won't
activate, so holding the shutdown button on the tower is your only means.
heck, a couple of keystrokes is fine for me.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
David,
As a couple of us have asked already, what's the need for a hotkey to shut
down one's computer? What is so difficult or time-consuming about exiting
an application or two and just shutting down with two or three key presses
*without* creating some sort of macro to do it? Sincere question. Not
sarcastic. Please explain what the need for such a trick is. thank you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David The Wild-thing!" <d.h.whitehead@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 3:03 AM
Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
Shortcuts for shutting/restarting windows XP
You can create a shortcut icon, you can assign a keystroke that will
shutdown windows.
Minimize to your desktop and press f5 to unselect any item on your desktop.
Press the applications key and enter on new.
Enter on shortcut.
Type in "SHUTDOWN -s -t 01" without the quotation marks
and click NEXT.
Now type in a name for your shortcut.
You can name it anything you want then click finish.
You will now see a new
icon on your desktop with the name you gave it.
Press alt enter on the icon and give it a shortcut keystroke.
When you want to shut down
your computer just press your hot-key.
If you would like to create a shortcut for restarting your computer, use
the same steps above, Just replace the first S with a R.
SHUTDOWN -r -t 01
However, sometimes when the computer freezes, or, jaws stops talking
completely, the user can press and hold the shutdown button on the tower,
for perhaps 5 seconds or so, and the machine will do a total shutdown.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Faill" <stephen.faill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 3:34 AM
Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
yes of course this would be a great choice and would have no hesitation to
do this if i had a restart button.
hth
stephen
----- Original Message -----
From: "SANJAY TANDON" <sanjtan@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
> Hi,
>
> Is the reset button also not good to use often for the machine?
> Thanks,
> Sanjay
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bobcat" <bobcat11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 12:31 PM
> Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
>
>
>> If you have it set to shutdown in advanced power options then just press
>> the power button shortly. Holding the power button down longer forces
>> the computer to power down without a safe shut down. It's somewhat like
>> pulling the plug but not quite as nasty.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 5:41 PM
>> Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
>>
>>
>>> But Allan,what is the way you believe is proper to push the power button
>>> to
>>> shut down the computer if you have it set to do that in the
>>> Power/advanced
>>> settings? This sounds confusing. You know, my power settings feature
>>> is
>>> set for pushing the power button to shut down the computer. Yes? Okay.
>>> But you know, if I just push and hold it for a second, no longer than
>>> the
>>> time I hold it when booting up, nothing at all happens, at least no
>>> immediately. I've never pushed the button only briefly then waited to
>>> see
>>> if anything happened after a few minutes.
>>>
>>> This is not clear to me. it sounds contradictory. Set the power setting
>>> so
>>> that the button turns off the computer, but don't hold the power button
>>> because to use it for this is not good for the computer. Do you see
>>> what it
>>> is that seems contradictory to me?
>>> Thanks.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Allan Wong" <allanwkf@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 4:18 PM
>>> Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
>>>
>>>
>>> no Daniel, press and hold down the power button for 4 second will force
>>> the
>>> computer shutdown not in proper manner and this is not
>>> advice to do un lest no others choice.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Allan Wong
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 05:53
>>> Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
>>>
>>>
>>> Stephen,
>>> I just went and looked at that combo box of possibilities for what you
>>> want
>>> to happen when you push the power button while the machine is on.
>>>
>>> But, Stephen, shutting down is the ordinary default function to begin
>>> with.
>>> At least it certainly was with my computer, an ordinary Dell Dimension
>>> 3000
>>> running Win XP Home with SP 2. Pushing and holding down the power
>>> button
>>> while the computer is running shuts it down for me, and did from the
>>> beginning. am I to infer that your computer was set up differently at
>>> first? If so, what happened when you pushed and held the power button
>>> while
>>> the computer was running? Did it do one of those other options?
>>>
>>> thanks for explaining,
>>> Daniel
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Stephen Faill" <stephen.faill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 2:14 PM
>>> Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
>>>
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>> Ok goto settings, control panel, power options.
>>>
>>> once in here goto the advanced tab and tab to when i press the power
>>> button
>>> and here you will have a combo box of 5 items that you can assign to the
>>> main power button on your machine.
>>>
>>> hth
>>>
>>> stephen
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:40 PM
>>> Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm afraid I don't understand what you say, below, about the method you
>>>> figured out for yourself. Going to the control panel, and a combo box,
>>>> and
>>>> having a button shut down? i don't get it. Could you try to rephrase
>>>> this?
>>>> Now you've made me really curious to find out this possibly helpful
>>>> workaround. Also, by the way, I didn't know this had started with
>>>> being
>>>> in
>>>> an emergency cituation because Jaws had stopped.
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Stephen Faill" <stephen.faill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:36 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>> this thread was started by me and i had originally asked this question
>>>> because jaws had stopped talking.
>>>>
>>>> i found the most helpful reply to be going to power settings in the
>>>> control
>>>> panel and going to the advanced tab and using the combo box to have the
>>>> power button to shut down for me.
>>>>
>>>> hth
>>>>
>>>> stephen
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 3:50 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: hotkey for shutdown?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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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