EggXpert

Here's a quick way to shut down or restart your puter, by making a shortcut

right-click your desktop scroll to 'new'  then 'shortcut'

in the wizard that pops up type (for Shutdown):

Shutdown -s -t 00                     <-Those are Zero's after the -t  (then click next, and name it Shutdown or whatever) 

for Restart  do the same and type in:

Shutdown -r -t 00   

make a custom icon for 'em and Drag em to your Quick-Launch bar, and you have a quick n easy one-click way to Shutdown or Restart (not that clicking the 'Start' button and doing it the traditional way is hard or anything,  this just makes it  faster:)  Enjoy!

I think this has been posted here somewhere already.

[note: I believe you will finde that if the time is going to be Zero, you may leave-out the -t switch completely, and achieve the same result and you do not need the /s switch at all when shutting-down ]

Tallon41

good 2 know thx!