Mar 042010
These next two tricks are documented and will continue to work in future versions of Windows:
If you’re a command line person, you can run
shutdown.exe, but that program supports only shutdown and restart; it doesn’t do stand-by or hibernate. But theshutdown.exeprogram has a serious flaw: It requires you to have administrator privileges. If you are a limited user with shutdown privileges, theshutdown.exeprogram will complain. (Which means that I don’t use it.)Finally, if your computer isn’t using Fast User Switching, you can type the Ctrl+Alt+End hotkey, which is the Remote Desktop version of Ctrl+Alt+Del and consequently takes you to a dialog where you can do various system-type things, among them logging off and shutting down.

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