Shortcuts

[grandfatherd]

After having my computer repaired I have lost ashort cut to switching off the compuer by pressing the "u" key on the keyboard any ideas how to get it back?thanks in hope of a reply.

[wildwood]

I switch mine off by simply pressing the Windows key and then the U key twice. (windows XP)

You can make your own shortcut by right-clicking anywhere on you desktop and choose 'new' and then 'shortcut'. In the line requiring info copy and paste this

%windir%\system32\shutdown.exe -s -t 0

exactly the same, no added spaces or anything. Next name the shortcut and finish. You can even give the icon a pretty picture by right clicking on the icon and choose 'properties'.

You can now shutdown windows by double clicking the icon.

This seems rather a lot of bother just to avoid pressing three keys on the keyboard.