{"id":10424,"date":"2015-12-06T20:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T01:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=10424"},"modified":"2015-12-06T20:30:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T01:30:35","slug":"how-to-shutdown-or-restart-your-computer-when-you-cant-access-the-start-menu-or-the-shutdown-dialog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-shutdown-or-restart-your-computer-when-you-cant-access-the-start-menu-or-the-shutdown-dialog\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Shutdown or Restart Your Computer When You Can&#8217;t Access the Start Menu or the Shutdown dialog"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>How to Shutdown or Restart Your Computer When You Can&#8217;t Access the Start Menu or the Shutdown dialog<\/h1>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever had the unfortunate experience of trying to shutdown or restart your computer when when your Start menu or taskbar are unresponsive&#8230;it can be daunting. One obvious way to to shut down is to simply power off your computer, but that may result in unexpected problems.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another, better way to shutdown your computer without using the Start menu or Shutdown\/Restart dialog, and it&#8217;s very easy to do.<\/p>\n<p>Just press the Windows Key plus the R key to open a Run Dialog<\/p>\n<p>In the Run dialog:<\/p>\n<p>To shutdown your computer type SHUTDOWN and press enter.<\/p>\n<p>To restart your computer type SHUTDOWN \/R and press enter (Please note the space between SHUTDOWN and the slash.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2016\/shutdown.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So the next time you cannot shut your computer down the way you normally do, you&#8217;ll have another option besides powering off your computer.<\/p>\n<p>This tip works in Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Get more tips like this! Sign up for our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/join.htm\" target=\"_blank\">free weekly newsletter<\/a><\/span> or our <a href=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/start\/subscribe.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">daily newsletter<\/span> <\/a>or both.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Shutdown or Restart Your Computer When You Can&#8217;t Access the Start Menu or the Shutdown dialog If you&#8217;ve ever had the unfortunate experience of trying to shutdown or restart your computer when when your Start menu or taskbar are unresponsive&#8230;it can be daunting. One obvious way to to shut down is to simply power off your\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-shutdown-or-restart-your-computer-when-you-cant-access-the-start-menu-or-the-shutdown-dialog\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10425,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424\/revisions\/10425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}