{"id":30,"date":"2009-10-21T00:26:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T00:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adeelejaz.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2016-01-10T03:46:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T03:46:55","slug":"shortcut-shut-down-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adeelejaz.com\/blog\/shortcut-shut-down-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortcut for shutting down Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had been using Microsoft XP since 2004 and being a power user relied heavily on its keyboard shortcuts. I had pre-ordered a copy of Windows 7 and installed it last night. What I’m shocked to realise is they have broken one the most used keyboard shortcuts, i.e. the one to shut down Windows.<\/p>\n

In Windows XP, it was as simple as pressing the Windows key and ‘U’. Now that no longer works and I have to use my mouse to turn off my PC. Not a problem for most of the users but for people used to shortcuts its a big nuisance.<\/p>\n

I went through the booklet provided to find out if they had put a replacement in it but of no vain. I switched to plan B, tinkering around till I find a shortcut.<\/p>\n

To shutdown Windows 7 the shortcut is: Windows key > Left Arrow key > Enter<\/b><\/p>\n

To open the Shutdown options’ menu, you need to press the Left Arrow key again followed by the shortcut key for the required action.<\/p>\n

Shutting down the PC, although different, takes same number of key presses but sleeping (Standby mode in Windows XP), Switch User and log off are two more extra keys.<\/p>\n

Is this better than Windows XP? I’ll leave that for you to decide.<\/p>\n

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I had been using Microsoft XP since 2004 and being a power user relied heavily on its keyboard shortcuts. I had pre-ordered a copy of Windows 7 and installed it last night. What I’m shocked to realise is they have broken one the most used keyboard shortcuts, i.e. the one to shut down Windows. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adeelejaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adeelejaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adeelejaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adeelejaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adeelejaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adeelejaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/adeelejaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adeelejaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adeelejaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adeelejaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}