All About - Windows8

In this article you’ll learn how to create and customize a shortcut in Windows 8 and add it to the new Start screen — in this case it will be a Shutdown shortcut, but you can create a Sleep, Restart, Hibernate shortcut or anything else you want –.

As you may have seen by now, Microsoft is reinventing Windows from an icon based OS to a live tile based OS, hundreds of new features and changes are being added, and even though there are a lot of things that are new, they are not too complicated to relearn and customization still somehow simple.

Now what happens when you want to add your own tweaks, for example, in this case shortcuts to perform and specific task such as launching an application, or something that would be useful, like including the missingShutdown or Restart capabilities back — of course, you can use  + I keyboard shortcut  in Windows 8 too, but many people are used to shutting down from the classic Start menu.

1 Open Windows Explorer and in the address bar type the following and press Enter:

 Once you are in Programs, you’ll need to create a shortcut for anything you like — For this Windows How-To we are going to be creating a Shutdown shortcut:

On an empty space, do a right-click, navigate through New and click on Shortcut. In there type the following and click Next to continue:

 When you are done creating the shortcut, you’ll see that a new icon showed up in the folder. You can double-click it to test if indeed it shuts the computer down, or in the other cases if it restarts, sleeps or hibernates yourcomputer.

You probably don’t like the default icon for the shortcut, it would be nice if it had a more meaningful image, right?

Once you’re done creating the Shutdown shortcut, go back to the new Start screen and type shutdown computer or the name you called the shortcut.