This tutorial will explain how to make fast shortcuts to shutdown your computer instead of going to [Start > Turn off computer > Shut down] in these easy 3 steps:

   1 - Go to your desktop then [Right Click > New > Shortcut] as shown below



   2 - In the "Type the location of the item" text box, write: "shutdown -r -f -t 00" like the following picture



   -r means restart... which means you can use -s to shutdown, -l to log out and -a to abort shutdown request.
   -f means force the programs to close. You can scratch that if you want.
   -t means seconds before performing the shutdown. Use 00 if you don't want to wait any second.

   3 - Write the shortcut's name in the "Type a name for this shortcut" as shown in the picture below



   Finish Click on finish and you'll see the shortcut on your desktop like this:



   Now you have created a shortcut to restart your computer. That's it. An example of what will happen when you Double-click that icon can be seen in the following picture





NOTES:
   1 - You can't use -s, -r or -l together... Must use only one of them.
   2 - You can use -c to add comments
   3 - To learn more go to [Start > Run > and write cmd.exe > write shutdown] to see more details about shutdown.