Shutdown Shortcut

So do you want to amaze your friends by shutting down their computer with a couple of keystrokes? Try this out:

On your keyboard press the windows key, now press ‘u’, then press ‘u’ again!

and lo! The Windows computer will shut down!

Note: Do not press all the 3 keys together.

Alternate: press ctrl+esc (together), now press u, then u again.

A Great Alternate

You can even create a file that will shutdown your computer as soon as you open that file. You can keep it on your desktop for easy and instant shut down.

  • Paste the following code into Notepad
    SHUTDOWN -s -t 00
  • Save the notepad file as shutdown.exe
  • Whenever you click on that file now, your computer will shutdown

Tip: You can even mail this file to a friend (only friends please), saying that it’s a magic file or something & persuade them to download and run this file.

They will be startled when they see their screen go blank and windows shut down..!!!

But please do NOT spam

Note: This trick works only on Windows XP

Author: Ayush Mittal

Ayush Mittal has written 86 article(s) at TrickVilla. Co-Founder, Admin at TrickVilla, am a tech enthusiast. I am into programming, web-designing and developing.

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