How to add a shutdown button to the Windows 7 taskbar

[javajolt]

The taskbar in Windows 7 is quite useful but there's always room for improvement. Here's how you can add a shutdown button to the taskbar to make it easy to shutdown your Windows 7 computer.

1. Right click and choose New Shortcut.
 
2. In the location field type the following:
 
"Shutdown.exe -s -t 00"
 
3. Click on Next and name your new shortcut (Shutdown is a good name).

4. You can then change the icon to whatever you want.

5. Drag the new Shutdown shortcut onto your taskbar.

Now you can easily shutdown your Windows 7 computer by just clicking on your new shutdown icon.

Note:  After doing this to my Taskbar, ▼ I have found it rather easy to accidently come close to clicking on it...Sys. Admin

[littlemax9]

what is the shortcut for "Sleep" ? i think i want that more than "Shutdown"

[javajolt]

This should do it

• Select New -> Shortcut
 
• In the “Type the location of the item” field enter the following
 
• Rundll32.exe Powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Sleep
 
• Click Next
 
• This will create a shortcut with the name rundll32,

• Right Click the shortcut, select Rename and type in Sleep
 
You can now open this shortcut whenever you desire to put your computer into sleep mode.