In previous Windows versions , the Shut Down Button location was different and probably you have searched the similar interface ,there is one but seems hidden. Windows 10 includes a Shut Down Windows dialog box that you can open with a keyboard shortcut. There are many different ways to shut down or restart Windows One of them is by pressing the Alt+F4 combination to bring up the Windows classic shutdown dialog box.
1. First of all, you need to close the windows on which you’re working. Or you can minimize those.
2. Now, press the ‘Alt‘ and ‘F4‘ keys simultaneously. You will observe a dialog box named as ‘Shut Down Windows‘.
3. You could see the “What do you want the computer to do?” section. From the drop-down menu below this section.
In the Close Window dialog box, you can select what you want the computer to do from the following actions.
Switch users
Sign out
Sleep
Shut Down
hibernate
restart
We created a small Portable freeware “Classic Shut Down” to open the same dialog Box with parameter support. cShutdown.exe or cShutdown_x64.exe has no GUI , If you double click it one of them you will see the Classic Shut Down Dialog box. For the usability (ergonomics) you can pin it to the Taskbar, this way will provide you ease of use.
In addition you can use “Classic Shut Down” with parameters. To see all available parameters , just Open Command Prompt in the “cShutdown” folder (Usually right clik the folder while you pressing the Shift key and Choose Open Command window here)
With your input and support, we will add new features as need be.
Supported operating systems: Windows 11 , Windows 10 , Windows 8.1 , Windows 8 , Windows 7 , Windows Vista , Windows Xp – (x86 & x64)
File: cShutdown_x64.exe │ Virustotal
MD5: 90c01251554de730d412240bd62f9bb6
SHA1: 58e826ea2ca0418d0ad6b0c3dfcffe30ef29d5ad
File: cShutdown.exe │ Virustotal
MD5: 8cd5ff983ede918b6948b4ac8dcf0570
SHA1: a321b18de1e56107cceaf4f2d733c092e0b5c457
Classic Shut Down doesn’t support network environment. You can set a script file such as bat, ps1 … for the psshutdown64.exe. This will make it easier to use.
I needed a program to send a Sleep requests to another computer over the network, not the local one I am using.
I run Win7 guest within Win11 VirtuaBox host. Win7 is primarily used and Win11 makes a lot of problems with going to sleep automatically. I have used psshutdown64.exe to send a Sleep request from Guest Win7 to host Win11. But, that is way too complicated for most normal users.
Could this great Shut Down utility of yours be modified to send the same Sleep/Hibernate … commands to any computer on the current network?
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