Window 7: One Click Restart Shortcut on your Taskbar
Posted by Chris Luongo in Microsoft Windows 7
If you restart your computer often, you will love this tech-recipes hint. Just follow these steps to create a shortcut that will restart your system with a single click of your mouse.
Save time and a few extra clicks by pinning a shortcut to your Windows 7 taskbar. This will allow you to restart your system with one click.
1. Right click on your Desktop. Go to New > Shortcut.
2. Type in the text box: shutdown /r /t 0
3. Click next
4. Type a name for the shortcut and click finish.
5. Click and drag the shortcut icon on your desktop to the Taskbar and drop it. It will automatically become pinned.
6. Your restart shortcut is now pinned to the taskbar.
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March 29, 2011 at 10:41 am, Pj said:
Handy, thanx.
March 30, 2011 at 11:02 am, Ixl said:
The danger of this is accidently clicking it. Its why a restart or shut down is a two stage process.
March 31, 2011 at 2:16 pm, Warner said:
good work.. dude!
April 05, 2011 at 2:19 am, Chris Luongo said:
Thanks!
April 03, 2011 at 1:32 pm, Mac Daddy said:
Great tip and we chose it for this weeks TNHW Tech Tip of the week.
http://www.technewshw.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8902
@ lxl good point. In our article we actually located the restart shortcut 2 slots right of the start menu on the taskbar to avoid this.
Cheers,
Dave
April 05, 2011 at 2:19 am, Chris Luongo said:
Thanks man thats awesome! And good idea!
May 23, 2011 at 4:35 am, Chrislight76 said:
cool trick, thanks….how do i get that nifty leather wallpaper?
July 12, 2011 at 3:10 pm, Chris Luongo said:
Thanks! Somewhere on Google I’m not too sure!