Shutdown or Restart Windows 7 using keyboard keys only.

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An interesting way to shutdown or restart your Windows 7 computer without using the mouse cursor; but by using keyboard keys only.

Make sure you have saved all your work before you try it! smile Shutdown or Restart Windows 7 using keyboard keys only.

Press the Windows Key (WinKey).
Release it
Press the Right Arrow key
Hit Enter !

Re-starting though, may not so convenient.

Press the Windows Key.
Release it.
Press the Right Arrow key twice
Press the Up Arrow key
Hit Enter !

Windows Vista users may want to see this.

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  • Joan

    Amazing — works well! Thank you :)

  • http://www.microsoft.com/nb/no/default.aspx Alon

    Using same trick, XP users can press the Windows Key, then release it, then press the Up Arrow key and finally Hit Enter !

    Thanks for the heads up, on this one!

  • Davem

    The easy way: ;)

    try this: Alt+f4(more times if other programs are still running) and hit enter.

  • Corey Malone

    windows key + D
    then press alt + f4
    after using the arrows key to select action press enter

  • http://www.sitaram-pamarthi.com Sitaram

    Ah!..I learned this when I started my internship.

    Let me give you some advanced(this works if you have machines has press ctrl+alt+del to login option set — most of the corporates will have it).

    * Press ctrl+alt+del
    * press “S” — this makes you to select “shutdown” option in ctrl+alt+del screen; no worry, it will not be shutdown right away
    * Now based on your choice, press “s”(for shutdown) or “R”(for restart) or “H”(for hibernate) and press enter

    If you want to shutdown/restart a system to which you connected through RDP, then use ctrl+alt+end instead of ctrl+alt+del in first step of above process.

    Sitaram Pamarthi

  • Brenda Glaviano

    Corey malones advice worked best for me. If I held the windows key and d key down it started to shut down. Then I held down alt key and f4 key until small window popped up. Hitting s key scrolled thru shutdown,start, and sleep options. When shutdown came up hit enter. It worked. Thanks

  • kemp

    to shutdown alt+f4 release then enter.. to restart alt+f4 release press R then enter

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