How to make a 'Shutdown' tile for Windows 8

A new way of shutting down windows was one among the many bizarre changes that came with the much celebrated Windows 8 that frustrated long time users of Windows to no end.

While most of us have learned to Alt+F4 our way out of windows by now, instead of going through the multi-click procedure that hides the shutdown button the same way an mobile network provider tries to hide their USSD code for disabling all cash-leeching 'services', its always convenient to have a big fat tile sitting on the Metro UI that is a one-click solution to end your windows woes.

It's cool, it something that not everyone has, and hey-you are doing some (very simple) scripting for this!

Well to start, right click on the desktop, select new → shortcut.

In the window that pops up, type in " shutdown /p". (Don't include the quotes, and there is a space between 'shutdown' and '/p')

Click next. The name already in place now should be 'shutdown.exe'. Change it if you wish, and click 'Finish'.

Now right click on the newly created icon on the desktop, and choose 'Pin to start'.

You are essentially done, but just for an aesthetic effect you might want to change the icon of the shortcut to the shutdown picture through Properties→Shortcut tab→Change icon and choosing the shutdown icon.

And now, the end results should look like this:

Now that's definitely good addition, ain't it? See you again next week!