Comments on: Shutdown or Restart Windows 7 using keyboard keys only.

By: kemp

kemp — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:38:27 +0000

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

By: Brenda Glaviano

Brenda Glaviano — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:09:25 +0000

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

By: Sitaram

Sitaram — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:14:47 +0000

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

By: Corey Malone

Corey Malone — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:43:46 +0000

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

By: Davem

Davem — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:50:32 +0000

The easy way:

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

By: Alon

Alon — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:08:58 +0000

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!

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:55:27 +0000

Amazing — works well! Thank you