Takeaway: Creating shortcuts to shut down or power down a PC running Microsoft Windows 7 is easy, but it does require specific commands. One of the most often-requested Microsoft Windows tweaks is for shortcuts that shut down, power down, and restart a Windows session. The procedure for Windows 7 is very similar to that of Vista and XP, but now you can pin those freshly created shortcuts to the Start Menu or the Taskbar or both. Creating a shortcut Creating a shortcut should be familiar to almost everyone, but we will walk through the process just for clarity. There are other ways to accomplish this task, but this is my preferred method. First, right-click on a clear spot on the desktop and navigate to New | Shortcut, as shown in Figure A . Figure A Navigate the menu to create a new shortcut. When you click the Shortcut menu item, you will arrive at the input screen shown in Figure B . This is where you will enter the specific command strings to make your new...