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SHORTCUT TO SHUT DOWN THE COMPUTER
In order to shut down Windows and your computer,
you usually have to go through a number of movements and
clicks of the mouse: first, the Start button, then the
Shut Down... option on the Start Menu, then perhaps
choose the option for Shut Down, if one of the others
(Restart or Restart in MS-DOS mode) is already checked,
and then finally click on the OK button. It is possible
to create a shortcut that shuts down your computer
immediately. You create the shortcut on your Desktop, but
then it can be moved to a convenient place like the
Taskbar tray area or the Quick Launch bar, assuming you
have Windows 98/ME or Windows 95 with Internet Explorer
4.0 or later. Here's how: right click on a blank area of
the Desktop and select New, and then Shortcut from the
Context Menus that pop up. In the command line of the
shortcut dialog box, type in the following (or something
similar, your Windows directory may be called something
else, such as Win95):
C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE User,ExitWindows
Clicking on this shortcut will shut down your computer at
once. If any programs are running with open files, you
will be asked if you want to save the files, but that's
about it.