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Windows Desktop Shortcut to Activate Screensaver

watashii — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 06:59:00 +0000

For all the power saving green freaks out there, heres how to create a handy Windows desktop shortcut to activate the screensaver immediately.

Step 1

Right click on the desktop > New > Shortcut

Step 2

In the “Type in the location of the item“, add in the following: %SystemRoot%\system32\logon.scr /s

Note this is the location of the screen-saver executable file that is used during Windows user login. You can switch to another screen-saver file of your choice (eg look for different .scr files under the C:\windows\system32\ folder)

Step 3

Give it a shortcut name to complete, eg: “Activate Screensaver”

Step 4

Optionally you can change the icon of your choice: Right click on your shortcut > Properties > Change Icon…

Abort Windows Shutdown Using Shortcut

watashii — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:41:13 +0000

This follows on from the previous post on how to force shutdown your Windows machine using a shortcut. This post shows how to cancel / stop Windows from shutting down after launching the shutdown command (eg by accident).

To create this shortcut, open Notepad, and add the following line of text, then save it with a .bat extension. You need to hit the shortcut quickly if you want to abort in time.

shutdown.exe -a

Where: -a abort shutdown

[abort_shutdown.bat] 32 bytes

Force Shutdown Windows XP Using Shortcut

Force Shutdown Windows XP Using Shortcut

watashii — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:35:59 +0000

Here is a handy way to force shutdown your Windows XP machine using a shortcut. To create this shortcut, open Notepad, and add the following line of text, then save it with a .bat extension.

shutdown.exe -f -s -t 5 -c "bye"

Where: -s shutdown (use -r for restart) -f force shutdown -t time delay (5 secs) -c prompted comment, "bye"

[shutdown.bat] 32 bytes

Abort Windows Shutdown Using Shortcut