How to Make a Shutdown Shortcut in Windows 7 and 8

Are you still shutting down or restarting your Windows computer the old-fashioned way—through the Start menu? You can create a shortcut so that you could do these right from your desktop? Making a shutdown shortcut is a much quicker and more joy and unique way of shutting down. Follow these given below steps.

Right-click on your desktop.

Hover the cursor over "New" and click "Shortcut" on the next menu that appears.

Copy and paste the following into the text field:- (shutdown.exe -s)

To create a restart shortcut, replace -s with -r (shutdown.exe -r)

To change the timer, add -t xx, with xx being the number of seconds, to the end. By default, there will always be a 30-second countdown even if the -t xx portion is not included.

To add a "goodbye" message, type -c "your message" (including the quotation marks) at the end.
Type a name for the shortcut. Click "Finish" when done.

Right-click the shortcut and choose "Properties".

Click "Change Icon..

Choose an appropriate icon. Finally, confirm your selecting with "OK" at both windows.

When you are ready, double-click the shortcut to initiate shutdown. You will see a window counting down and your message will be shown. one time the timer runs out, all your programs will start to close and Windows will shut down.