Slide to shut down is a quick and smart way to shut down your pc. It is a useful trick for you. It can save you time. Otherwise, you have to go to the win key and shut down your laptop from there. Or you can long press the start button to close your laptop. But in this feature, you just have to drag the window down to close your laptop.
How To Create Slide To Shut Down Shortcut for Your PC
There are basically three ways to create a slide-to-shut-down shortcut. They are
- Execute slide to shut down from shortcut
- Execute slide to shut down from run dialog
- Execute slide to shut down from the start
1. Execute Slide To Shut Down From Shortcut
Follow the steps below to create a shortcut for Slide To Shut Down.
Step 1: At first take your cursor to a space and the right button of your mouse. Click to new and then to shortcut.
Step 2: There you can see an empty box (Type the location of the item). Paste “SlideToShutDown.exe”.
Step 3: You can see a ‘Next’ at the end. Click it.
Step 5: Then give the name of the shortcut (Ex. Slide To Shut Down) and click ‘finish’.
Now you can see a shortcut is created on your desktop. To shut down the computer double click on the shortcut and slide your screen down (click in empty space and drag down your mouse cursor). You can also press enter to shut down your PC.
You can also change the icon of the shortcut. It can help you to find the shortcut icon easily. Follow the steps below to change the icon of the shortcut:
Step 1: Take your cursor to an empty space and the right button of your mouse and select ‘properties’.
Step 2: In the slide-down property tab you can see the ‘Change icon’ button at the last. Click it.
Step 3: After clicking you can see a pop-up appears on the screen. Click ‘ok’ to choose an icon from the list or specify a different file.
Step 4: Now choose an icon from the provided list. It is wise to choose an icon that is relevant t the shortcut. Then click ‘ok’.
Step 5: Click ‘Apply’ to apply the icon and again click ‘Ok’.
2. Execute Slide To Shut Down From Run Dialog
Follow the steps below to create a shortcut for Slide To Shut Down.
Step 1: At first, go to ‘Run’ ( Win + R key ).
Step 2: Now you can see the Run dialog. Enter the command “SlideToShutDown”.
Step 3: Now click on the ‘ok’ button or press enter key.
Step 4: Now you can see it sliding into the shutdown menu.
3. Execute Slide To Shut Down From the Start
Follow the steps below to create a shortcut for Slide To Shut Down.
Step 1: Go to ‘start’ ( Win key).
Step 2: Enter the command “SlideToShutDown”.
Step 3: Press enter key
Step 4: You can see it sliding in the shutdown menu.
Conclusion
In this article, we discuss the slide to shut down your pc. It is useful because it saves time. This process is easy to shut down your pc. We have also discussed some ways for this.
