Alpha Technical Solutions » Shutdown http://www.alphatechsolutions.co.uk/blog Making Technology Easy Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:02:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Tip of the Week: Customising Windows – Shutdown Shortcuts http://www.alphatechsolutions.co.uk/blog/2010/02/tip-of-the-week-customising-windows-shutdown-shortcuts/ http://www.alphatechsolutions.co.uk/blog/2010/02/tip-of-the-week-customising-windows-shutdown-shortcuts/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:01:04 +0000 robert http://www.alphatechsolutions.co.uk/blog/2010/02/tip-of-the-week-customising-windows-shutdown-shortcuts/ People new to Windows and other Microsoft products very often don’t realise just how customisable they are. We’d like to address that by introducing to our top tips not just good IT procedures and scam news but actual useful customisations that you can perform on Windows, Office or any other product we think you might be interested in.

To start with we’ve got a great tip on the creation of shutdown shortcuts in Windows 7. Although Windows 7 has a brief shutdown procedure, accessing features like restart, lock workstation, hibernate and sleep can be difficult for some people. This is particularly true for the elderly or disabled. Making shortcut to do this in a place that is most convenient for the person in question can really help with this most basic of tasks.

If you are interested in learning how to do this click here and you will be taken to an excellent article in TechRepublic that goes through the procedure step by step with some very clear illustrations.

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