Now if you double-click the shutdown shortcut on your desktop, Terminal will open, prompting you to enter your user password. Once entered, the timer will begin.

To set the sleep timer on Windows 10, you'll need to find and open your computer's "Power & Sleep" menu.

In this article we will show you how to create a desktop shortcut to activate the standby mode of Windows 7. To add a desktop shortcut to put your computer to sleep on Windows 7: ...

After reading my tip about creating a shutdown shortcut, Dan Sweet asked for one that will hibernate his PC.

Here's how you can quickly shut down or put your Windows 8 computer to sleep.

Now using Vista, Aung Kyaw Moe misses XP’s keyboard shortcuts for shutting down, rebooting, and hibernating a computer. Before I answer the question, let me satisfy any XP users who are ...