Add desktop shortcut for Shutdown and/or Restart in XP?

[bralph]

I would like to create a desktop shortcut for Restart and Shutdown commands in Windows XP Pro.

I'm using a policy to remove Start-Shutdown because I only want Logoff to be available from the Ctrl-Alt-Del menu. If I can get Shutdown and/or Restart added as desktop icons, I should be all set.

[PeMo]

This is how I did it on one of my PCs:

Create a new shortcut on your desktop (Right-click, New, Shortcut). Browse to Windows\System32 and select Shutdown.exe. Click Next, name it whatever you want. After it's created, right-click on the new shortcut, select properties, and on the Shortcut tab, after "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SHUTDOWN.EXE" (in Target) type -s. (So it would look like this: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SHUTDOWN.EXE -s)

This will shut down your computer. Instead of the -s, you could type -r to shut down and reboot. Here are the options you could type:

-i Display GUI interface, must be the first option
-l Log off (cannot be used with -m option)
-s Shutdown the computer
-r Shutdown and restart the computer
-a Abort a system shutdown
-m \\computername Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort
-t xx Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds
-c "comment" Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters)
-f Forces running applications to close without warning
-d [u][p]:xx:yy The reason code for the shutdown
u is the user code
p is a planned shutdown code
xx is the major reason code (positive integer less than 256)
yy is the minor reason code (positive integer less than 65536)

[bralph]

Nevermind, I figured it out. I just created a .bat file with:

c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -s for Shutdown
and
c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -r for Restart

Then put shortcuts on the desktop to the .bat files.

Edit: I figured it out before the post above, but thanks!