Add Turn Off, Restart and Log Off Options

October 4, 2008 by Ivan
Filed under Windows Tips

How to add additional options into the right-click menu of My Computer:

1)Open notepad start -> Accessories -> Notepad , copy following code into notepad

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00;Add log off option to My Computer(Computer) context menu [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\ Log Off \command] @=”shutdown -l -f -t 2″ ;Add log off option to My Computer(Computer) context menu [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\ Restart \command]@=”shutdown -r -f -t 3″;Add log off option to My Computer(Computer) context menu[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\ Turn Off computer \command]@=”shutdown -s -f -t 3″

or just download the code , from this link

2) Then save the notepad file, as shown below

3)Run registar.reg , it will ask you for your permission to add this tweak into registry, you click Yes. After this you’ll have more options (log off, turn off, restart computer) in the right-click menu.

Before you do this, it would be a good thing to make a backup in case you want to undo this tweak…

Here’s a video instructional if you find it easier to follow the steps this way:

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One Comment on "Add Turn Off, Restart and Log Off Options"

John D on Mon, 6th Oct 2008 5:37 am

Very nice tip. This could possibly be a quicker way to shut down/log off/reboot my pc. Thanks for Sharing. John

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