Windows 10: Create Slide to Shut down Shortcut in Windows 10

How to: Create Slide to Shut down Shortcut in Windows 10

How to Create a 'Slide to Shut down' Shortcut in Windows 10


Information The slide to shut down feature will let you shut down your PC by simply sliding a touch screen down, or dragging a screen down. Currently you can only use slide to shut down by running the SlideToShutDown.exe file.

This tutorial will show you how to download or create a Slide to Shut down shortcut to slide to shut down your Windows 10 PC or device.



Note How to Use Slide to Shut down your PC:

• Slide the slide to shut down screen to the bottom of the touch screen to shut down your PC.
• Click and hold with mouse or touchpad and drag the slide to shut down screen to the bottom of the display and release to shut down your PC.
• Press Enter while on the slide to shut down screen to shut down your PC.
• Click/tap on the slide to shut down screen to cancel

CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Download a Slide to Shut down Shortcut
• Option Two: To Manually Create a Slide to Shut down Shortcut

EXAMPLE: Slide to Shut down your PC









OPTION ONE [/i] To Download a Slide to Shut down Shortcut
1. Click/tap on the Download button below to download the .zip file below.
Slide_to_Shut down_shortcut.zip

Download
2. Save the .zip file to your desktop.

3. Unblock the .zip file.

4. Open the .zip file, and extract (drag and drop) the shortcut to your desktop.

5. If you like, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to, or move this shortcut to where you like for easy use.

6. When finished, you can delete the downloaded .zip file if you like.




OPTION TWO [/i] To Manually Create a Slide to Shut down Shortcut
1. Right click or press and hold on an empty area on your desktop, and click/tap on New and Shortcut.

2. Copy and paste the location below into the location area, and click/tap on Next. (see screenshot below)
*Arrow %windir%\System32\SlideToShutDown.exe




3. Type Slide to Shut down for the name, and click/tap on the Finish button. (see screenshot below)
NOTE: You could name this shortcut anything you would like though.



4. Right click or press and hold on the new Slide to Shut down shortcut, and click/tap on Properties.

5. Click/tap on the Shortcut tab, and click/tap on the Change Icon button. (see screenshot below)



6. Click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)



7. In the line under "Look for icons in this file", copy and paste the location below, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)
*Arrow %SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll




8. Select the icon highlighted in blue above, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot above)
NOTE: You could use any icon that you would like instead though.

9. Click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below step 5)

10. If you like, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to, or move this shortcut to where you like for easy use.



That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Shut Down the Computer in Windows 10
• How to Play Sound at Shutdown in Windows 10
• How to Add Shut down Context Menu in Windows 10
• How to Allow or Prevent Users and Groups to Shut down System in Windows 10

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Windows 10 commands/shortcuts/env. var.

Keyboard shortcuts to open programs:

Create a shortcut on the desktop to whatever program you want. Right click -> Properties and fill in the field there. Sadly the shortcut needs to remain on the desktop, but you can hide it.

Fun fact: If you had keyboard shortcuts for programs pinned to your Windows 7 start menu, those shortcuts still work when you update to Windows 10.

 

Windows 10 home 64 bit {1809} shutdown shortcut

Hello Jim, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

If you like, you could use the command you want from option eight in the tutorial below to create a shutdown shortcut with.

*Arrow Shut Down Computer in Windows 10

or a slide to shut down shortcut if you have a touchscreen.

*Arrow Create Slide to Shut down Shortcut in Windows 10

 

How to create a shortcut for a keyboard shortcut.

Hi Marcos,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

I understand that you are willing to create Keyboard shortcut on Windows 10. I will certainly help you.

I suggest you to follow the steps in the below Microsoft article to create
a keyboard shortcut for an app.

Create keyboard shortcuts to open desktop apps

Note: The troubleshooting steps in the above link are meant for windows 8, however, you can use the same for windows 10 as well.

Refer below article for more information on Keyboard shortcuts.

Keyboard shortcuts

Please post back with above information and we will be glad to assist you further.

Thank you.

 

Unable to create shortcuts in Windows 10

Hi Terry,

Provide us with additional information to assist you further:

• Have you made any changes to the operating system prior to this issue?
• Does this issue confined to create a shortcut for any specific application?

As a workaround, I suggest you to try creating shortcuts in Safe mode with networking and check if it helps.

Refer: Start your PC in safe mode in Windows 10


Follow the below steps to place the computer in normal mode.

• 
  Press Windows + R keys to open
  Run command.
  
• 
  Type msconfig
  and press Enter.
  
• 
  In the System Configuration
  window, click on General tab.
  
• 
  Select Start-up selection
  as Normal startup, click on Apply and
  Ok.
  
• 
  Follow onscreen instructions.
  

Reply to the post with the required information and brief description about this issue for further assistance.

Thank you.

 

Create a Shortcut to shut down the computer.

Hi,

JJ, do you still have the shortcut you created? If you do can you right click on it and go to the bottom of the context menu and left or right click on Properties.

It should open to this, the shortcut tab:




Right click on the blue highlighted target line and copy. Paste that target line into your next post, we need to see how the command is set.

I have both a shutdown and restart shortcut on my desktop.




And these are the CMDs I use for them:
Code:

The s switch is for shutdown and the r switch is for restart.
The t switch sets the time to wait before actually starting the cmd and in my case 00 stands for immediately as soon as I click on the shortcut.


@Brink , Hi,

• I notice the CMDs don't need an elevated prompt anymore in 10 ?
• And forward slashes are used instead of dashes ?

Is this new for 10? I've been using my targets since w98 and they work, although now in 10 I have to click yes for the UAC. *Sad