How to turn off Windows 10

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All or almost all of us turn off our computer, with Windows 10 u otro sistema operativo desarrollado por Microsoft del mismo modo, dicho de otra forma, abriendo el menú Inicio y presionando el botón de apagado y después «Apagar». Que esta be la forma más popular de apagar nuestro PC, no quiere decir que sea la única y mucho menos que sea la mejor o la más recomendada.

For all this, today we are going to teach you how to shut down your Windows 10 computer, in up to 6 different ways, so you can choose how to do it, and fundamentally so that you choose the one you like the most and from which you can get the most benefits.

How to turn off Windows 10 with the keyboard

Few users know that Windows 10 can be turned off with our PC, which is more comfortable, or at least for us, than doing it with the mouse.

It can be done in several ways, but the best known can be by pressing the keys Alt + F4 if we are on the desktop (you can enter it at full speed by pressing the Windows + D keys). Clicking on it opens a window in which we have to press Enter so that the computer begins to shut down.

The second option to shut down Windows 10 with the keyboard is via the Windows + X command, which is equivalent to right-clicking the Start menu. This option is surely not as fast as the previous one we have seen, but it can be more than interesting if, as an example, our mouse became useless or we basically do not have it.

How to shut down Windows 10 using a shortcut

If you are not too convinced that you have to use the keyboard to shut down Windows 10, you can resort to a much more comfortable option like creating a shortcut. With just one click on it, our computer will start to shut down.

To create this shortcut we just have to press the right mouse button on any folder or on the Windows 10 desktop, and select the New option. Next we must select Direct Accessory and in the first window we will write shutdown.exe -s, and in the next one we put the name we want to the file. Now you can move it and place it where you want so that it is as comfortable as possible to enter it.

At the same time, this series of commands enables us to automate certain actions. We explain below some of the most interesting and fundamentally useful;

• Shutdown.exe –r to restart the computer
• Shutdown.exe –L to log out
• Rundll32.exe powrprof.dll, SetSuspendState to hibernate the computer
• Powrprof.dll rundll32.exe, SetSuspendState 0,1,0 put the computer to sleep or sleep
• Rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation to lock the device
• Shutdown.exe –a to abort the shutdown if we have accidentally given it

How to turn off Windows 10 with your voice using Cortana

Cortana It was the great novelty with which Windows 10 came to the market, becoming the first operating system for computers that incorporated a virtual assistant that allowed us, among other things, to control our device through voice commands.

Exactly one of those voice commands can help us to shut down the computer quickly and easilyand without having to use either the mouse or the keyboard. At the same time, with the arrival of the new Windows 10 update, called Fall Creators Update, everything will be easier and that is that we will be able to log out, restart or turn off the PC directly.

If you still do not have the Windows 10 update, you can activate the option to turn off the computer through Cortana by accessing;

C: Usuarios nombre de Username AppData Roaming Microsoft Windows menú Inicio Programas

Once there you must create a shortcut with the following text; "Shutdown.exe –s".

Now we change the name of the shortcut as "Turn off the computer" so that every time we tell Cortaba, she turns off our equipment.

How to use the computer's power button to turn off Windows 10

Regularly the physical button of the CPU of our PC allows us to turn it on, and regularly if we use it with the PC turned on it allows us to suspend it. At the same time, if we press it continuously, we can make a formed shutdown, something that is not highly recommended.

Unlike what many believe, and that I myself believed until a few days ago, Windows 10 and many other operating systems allow us to change the behavior of this button. Accessing the Control Panel and then the Power Options menu, we can modify the behavior of the buttons from the option; "Choose the behavior of the on / off buttons."

How to turn off Windows 10 with a countdown

As we have previously created the shortcut to shut down Windows 10, we can create it by adding a countdown. This timer can help us to impose a moment to turn off the PC, without there being much more option. As an example, when we go to work we can put an account at 8 o'clock and after that time the PC is turned off.

To create this shortcut with a timer, we must add the following command; "Shutdown.exe -s -t XXX" where XXX would be the time we want to choose, always in seconds.

If you want to be warned, in case you need to cancel this timer shutdown, you can create another shortcut; "Shutdown.exe -a".

How to shut down Windows 10 at full speed

Regularly all or almost all of us long for our computer to shut down at full speed. With Windows 10 this is possible thanks to several tricks that we are going to discuss and which are mainly focused on Windows itself not having to close the programs we are using, but rather that we do it ourselves manually.

For this let's change three registry values. To open it we must write regedit.exe and enter the path; HKEY_CURRENT_USER Dashboard Dashboard

Once here we can create up to three entries to change the behavior of our PC by default. To create them we must go to Edition, then to New and in summary to String value. The three entries that we can create are the following;

WaitToKillAppTimeout

Windows has a 20 second timeout for all applications to close. If we have already manually closed the applications, this waiting time does not make any sense, and we can reduce it to zero with this command. If we put 3000, the waiting time is reduced to 3 seconds or what is the same to turn off Windows 10 at full speed.

HungAppTimeout

This value is that specifies the length of time that Windows expects a program to hang, something that unfortunately happens more or less normally. By default this time is 5 seconds, but if we want to decrease this time it will be enough to use the HungAppTimeout command. To decrease the time to 2 seconds as an example we must set the value 2000.

AutoEndTasks

This is one of the most interesting alternatives that can be modified through the Windows registry, and that with it We can choose to force the closure of the different programs that we have open. If we put 1 as a value, all the programs that we have open will be closed by force and if we put a 0 we will have to close them manually.

Ready to start using some of the ways we show you to shut down a Windows 10 computer?.