How to shut down Windows 10 using keyboard shortcuts

Here Tipsmake.com will guide you the shortcut to shutdown Windows 10.

Use the User Menu

A shortcut used to shutdown is essentially a series of keys. This feature works without knowing any setup, you can easily do the following:

First, you press Windows + X .

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Now you will see the user menu appears, continue pressing U .

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Finally, press one of the following keys to perform shutdown, sleep or restart the computer.

1. Press U again to shut down Windows.
2. Press the R key to reboot.
3. Press S to put Windows to sleep.
4. Use H to hibernate (provided you have active sleep enabled).
5. Press I to log out of the user.

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Use the keyboard shortcut Alt + F4

As you probably know, pressing Alt + F4 will close the current window. Alternatively, when you don't have any windows currently selected, you can use Alt + F4 as a shortcut to sleep in Windows 10.

Back to the main screen of the computer, to ensure that no window is selected, you press Windows + D . Then press Alt + F4 and you will open the Windows Shut Down dialog box.

In this window, you can use the up and down arrow keys to choose between the following modes: Shut down , restart or sleep .

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Finally, just press Enter to confirm your choice.

Create shutdown shortcut

A simpler way to shut down the computer is to create a shortcut, you can use the keyboard to navigate to this shortcut, or just one click to shutdown.

First, go back to your desktop. Here right click, select New >> Shortcut .

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The Create Shortcut window appears, in the Type the location of the item box , enter: shutdown.exe / s / t 00 .

Then select Next .

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In the next step, enter a name for the shortcut to be whatever you want. Finally, Finish .

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The shortcut will appear right on your screen. You can use one mouse click to instantly shutdown the computer. Or if you cannot use the mouse, you can use the arrow keys to navigate to this shortcut, then press Enter to shutdown.

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There are also a number of other shortcut commands you can use when needed:

1. shutdown.exe / r / t 00 : Reboot the computer.
2. rundll32.exe powrprof.dll, SetSuspendState 0,1,0 : Sleep.
3. rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll, SetSuspendState : Hibernation.
4. rundll32.exe User32.dll, LockWorkStation : Sign out of the user.

Above are instructions on 3 ways to shutdown the computer with the keyboard on Windows 10, please share with your friends if you find the article useful!

Marvin Fry

Update 12 September 2020