Create Shutdown and Restart Buttons on Windows 8 Start Screen

Many of us have started using Windows 8 by downloading its consumer preview version. There are two most discussed features of Windows8. The former is its new metro design interface having live tiles to show online updates and the other feature of Windows 8 is Start Menu goes out of. There is no start menu in Windows 8.

So if there is no start menu in Windows 8 how can we perform power options like shutdown, restart, sleep, etc. You can perform these options from going to Start Screen –> Settings –> Power. To get settings option press shortcut key Win+C.

But this is a quiet lengthy process. What if you get a shortcut of Shutdown, Restart and Log off on Start Screen. In this simple tutorial I am going to show you how to add Shutdown, Restart and Log off buttons on Windows 8 Start Screen. So follow the instructions.

• Go to this link.and copy the whole script. Now go to your desktop and paste the script in new text document and save as start.vbs. It will create a vbs script file. Open it and you will see a pop window stating

"Created Shutdown, Restart and Log off buttons in your Programs Menu. You can now pin them to the start screen of your Windows 8 computer."

Go to your start screen and there you will find Shutdown, Restart and Log off buttons.

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