Windows 8 provides two different ways to interact with the system and perform various tasks. The first method will be familiar to users of previous systems, where all manipulations are performed using the keyboard and mouse. The second method is more user-oriented tablet computers With touch screen, specifically for which an interface was developed, called ModernUI.
You can also turn off your Windows 8 computer using several methods. Each is equally effective and can be used depending on the situation and user preference. It should be noted that in addition to shutting down, Windows 8 provides hibernation and standby modes (as in previous Windows versions).
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Method 1
To turn off a computer running Windows 8 with update 8.1 using the first method, you need to:
- Open the Start screen.
- Move the cursor to the upper right corner of the screen.
- Click on the power icon located between the account image and the search button.
- Select “Shutdown” from the drop-down menu.
Method 2
To shut down a computer running Windows 8 with 8.1 update, you need to:
- Open the classic desktop.
- Click right click mouse over the Windows logo on the taskbar.
- Hover your cursor over the “Shut down or log out” option.
- Select “Shutdown” from the drop-down menu.
Method 3
The third way to turn off the computer is familiar Windows users 7. To turn off your computer on Windows 8 you need to:
- Press the key combination “Ctrl” + “Alt” + “Del”.
- Hover over the power button in the lower right corner of the screen and click on it.
- Select “Shutdown” in the menu that appears.
Method 4
To turn off a Windows 8 computer using the fourth method, you need to:
- Press the Windows + L key combination to go to the lock screen.
- Press the “Esc” button or flip the lock screen image with an upward gesture.
- On the password entry screen, click on the power button in the lower right corner of the screen.
- Select the “Shutdown” item.
This method only works if Account user is password protected.
Method 5
The fifth method of turning off a computer based on the Windows 8 operating system is suitable primarily for users of devices with a touch screen, but can also be performed with a mouse. To turn it off you need:
- Swipe your finger (cursor) down from the top right corner of the screen.
- On the panel that appears, click the “Options” button.
- Touch the “Shut down” button and select “Shut down” in the menu that appears.
Method 6
The sixth method works in all versions of Windows, starting with the earliest ones. To turn off your computer you need to:
- Close all applications or minimize them by going to the desktop.
- Press the key combination “Alt” + “F4”.
- Select the Shutdown option from the drop-down list and click OK.
Turning off the computer in Windows 8 - this issue will come to the fore almost immediately after the first acquaintance with the new operating system. Having evaluated - Metro and Classic, the user (both beginner and experienced, but not in Windows 8) may become confused when trying to proceed to shutdown.
Previously, everything was simple and clear: just as you started working from the Start menu, you finished it through the Start menu. There were, of course, nuances in , similarly in . But it’s clear that it’s not for nothing that they say that “sometimes you have to lose something, or almost lose it, to truly appreciate what you’ve lost.”
Because what kind of nuances can we talk about when the Metro tiles on the Start screen don’t even have a hint of a shutdown tile in Windows 8? Alas, the state of the teapot, the researcher goes away as soon as you master the small computer tricks, including those that will be discussed further.
How to find the panel to turn off the computer in Windows 8?
This special panel is located on the right side of the screen. To call it, you need to move the mouse pointer to the lower right corner of the screen (number 1 in Fig. 1) until the desired panel appears to complete the work (number 2 in Fig. 1):
Rice. 1 Options panel (transparent version) in the Windows 8 Metro interface
When using touch controls, we use sliding from the right side of the screen, similar to how we flip through a book with our finger from the lower right side in search of necessary information. In this way, we will slide across the screen until the “cherished” panel with the Exit button appears, such as in Figure 1.
Sometimes novice users write to me that they panic if, when reading an article, the picture on their screen does not match the one I give in my articles. Therefore, Figure 2 below is for the classic Windows 8 interface:
Rice. 2 Settings panel (transparent version) for the classic Windows 8 interface
The pictures in Figures 1 and 2 are different because they reflect different Windows 8 interfaces: Metro and Classic. But the panel with the “Shutdown” button of the computer is called up exactly the same in these interfaces:
- click the mouse in the lower right corner of the screen,
- or scroll through the bottom right part of the screen with your finger.
Another small nuance inherent in the two Windows interfaces 8. The panel for completing work can change its appearance depending on our actions. More precisely, at the moment of its appearance it is transparent, as can be seen in Figures 1 and 2.
When you hover your mouse over any of the buttons, the panel changes from transparent to dark (compare Figures 1 and 3).
In Fig. 3 shows a screenshot for the Metro interface. For the classic interface, the panel with the Computer Shutdown button will also be darkened.
Rice. 3 Options button in the Windows 8 Metro interface
We found the panel, but where is the “Shutdown” button for the computer?
On the panel, click the “Parameters” button (circled in a yellow rectangle in Fig. 3). After this, the next “Options” panel will open (Fig. 4), on which it is easy to find the “Shutdown” button (circled in a yellow rectangle in the lower right corner in Fig. 4).
Rice. 4 Settings panel with Shut down button in Windows 8
For the classic interface, proceed exactly as described above for Metro (Fig. 3 and 4).
Three options for shutting down your computer in Windows 8
Press the “Shutdown” button (in Fig. 4 in the lower right corner). There are three options for shutting down the computer in Windows 8 (Fig. 5):
- Sleep mode
- Shutdown
Rice. 5 Power off button open menu of three modes
Let's take a closer look at each of the three computer shutdown modes.
Sleep mode
Convenient mode. Allows you to turn off the computer's power, but in such a way that its current state will be restored the next time it is turned on. This means that the same programs will open, and you can continue working “from the point” where you stopped before turning off the computer.
In the sleeping Windows mode 8, the state of the computer, figuratively speaking, will temporarily freeze, and little power will be used. But still, power will be consumed, so you cannot leave the computer in this mode for a very long time, for example, for several days. The computer turns on faster after waking up from sleep mode (almost instantly), and immediately with programs and data open at the time of shutdown, there is no need to reload them.
Shutdown
If the computer turns off for a long time, then you should select “Shutdown”. This will stop all running applications and all programs. operating room Windows system 8 will complete the job. The power will turn off. The battery life will not be consumed after the computer is turned off. But there are two important nuances.
The first nuance when “Shutting down”
A good rule of thumb when shutting down work is to close all running programs yourself. In this case, special attention should be paid to saving your data so that later this data can be found without problems. Otherwise, you may lose, for example, the text you have typed.
The second nuance when “Shutting down”
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Windows 8 is completely new and different from its own previous versions operating system. Microsoft created the eight, focusing on touch devices, so many things that are familiar to us have been changed. For example, users were deprived of a convenient menu "Start". In this regard, questions began to arise about how to turn off the computer. After all "Start" disappeared, and along with it the shutdown icon disappeared.
It would seem that it could be difficult to turn off the computer. But not everything is so simple, because the developers of the new operating system changed this process. Therefore, in our article we will look at several ways in which you can shut down the system on Windows 8 or 8.1.
Method 1: Use the “Charms” menu
The standard option to turn off the computer is to use the panel "Charms". Call this menu using a keyboard shortcut Win+I. You will see a window with the title "Options", where you can find many controls. Among them you will find the shutdown button.
Method 2: Use hotkeys
Chances are you've heard of the keyboard shortcut Alt+F4- it closes everything open windows. But in Windows 8 it will also allow you to shut down the system. Simply select the desired action from the drop-down menu and click "OK".
Method 3: Win + X menu
Another option is to use the menu Win + X. Press the indicated keys and in the context menu that appears, select the line "Shut down or log out". Several action options will appear, from which you can choose the one you need.
Method 4: Lock Screen
You can also sign off from the lock screen. This method is quite rarely used and you can use it when you turned on the device, but then decided to put things off until later. In the lower right corner of the lock screen, you will find a computer shutdown icon. If the need arises, you can call up this screen yourself using a keyboard shortcut Win+L.
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You will also find this button on the security settings screen, which can be called up with the well-known combination Ctrl + Alt + Del.
Method 5: Use the Command Line
And the last method we will look at is turning off the computer using « Command line» . Call the console in any way you know (for example, use "Search"), and enter the following command there:
And then click Enter.
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The same command can be entered into the service "Run", which is called by the keyboard shortcut Win+R.
As you can see, there is still nothing complicated about shutting down the system, but, of course, it is all a little unusual. All of the methods discussed above work the same and will shut down your computer correctly, so don't worry about damaging anything. We hope you learned something new from our article.
First, let's figure out how to completely turn off a laptop or regular PC on Windows 8. Still, Microsoft decided to remove the Start menu in this operating system and replace it with a tiled interface.
So, to turn off and restart the laptop, you need to point the mouse pointer to the lower right corner all the way, a menu similar to this will appear.
There are many different items in this column for setting up your computer, but we need to clickSettings (gear icon). Thus, a menu will pop up where we can turn off the laptop, put it into sleep mode or reboot.
I think some people will not be very comfortable turning off the device this way. Therefore, now we will look at ways to do this faster.
Start menu
To have fast access To computer programs, and also quickly turn off the device. Let's bring back the Start menu. We talked about this in the article How to return.
Using the power button on a laptop
We can just click on power button. But the point is that the computer will go into sleep mode. To put a button to turn off the laptop you need to open Control Panel (Win+I), then Power supply. You can also go to Power Options by right-clicking on the battery.
In the window that opens, we see the inscription "Action when pressed power buttons», next to it it says from battery and from mains, in these points we select Shutdown.
The same can be done when closing the lid.
Quick shutdown method
As we said above, some may not like it standard way turn off, but in order not to make unnecessary “body movements”, just press the combination Win+I. A menu will appear on the right where you can quickly turn off the device.
Shut down using a shortcut
Also a pretty simple method. To do this, right-click on the desktop, in the menu that appears, click Create – Shortcut. In field “Specify the location of the object” just enter the command: shutdown /s /t 0. Click Further, name our shortcut as we want and click OK. (By the way, 0 – this is how many seconds your computer will turn off, you can set your value).
You can leave the shortcut in a place accessible to you so that you can quickly turn it off.You can make icons for rebooting the screen, as well as going into sleep mode.
To do this, we create a Shortcut in the same way and enter the following values:
- To reboot - shutdown -r -t 0
- To go to sleep - rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Sleep
- Hibernation - PowrProf.dll,SetSuspendState
So we figured out how to quickly turn off a computer on Windows 8 and 8.1. By the way, if you are interested, for example, at school or office, then read the article using the link provided.
Until next time.
How to shut down or restart your computer in Windows 8? Oddly enough, this question is one of the first to arise for most users when they first get acquainted with new version windows, which is unique in the desire of the developers of the Redmond corporation to make a truly universal operating system that is equally functional and easy to use on both PCs and mobile devices.
One of the fundamental changes in Windows 8, compared to its predecessors, is the absence of the Start button, which, over almost two decades, has become familiar to all users operating systems from the windows family. In addition, the eighth Windows has a very original way of launching applications, which is the so-called tiled interface (Metro interface), which replaced the traditional Start menu, so most likely, when first acquainted with the new OS, many users will feel the opinion that, for example, turning off a computer is as easy and simple as it could be done in Windows 7 or XP, in new windows 8 won't work anymore.
Just for such people, this article proposes one of the ways to make the process of gaining access to managing power settings, such as turning off, rebooting, and putting the computer into sleep mode, as fast and convenient as possible.
You can access the power button in various ways:
- You must move the mouse pointer to the lower or upper right corner of the monitor screen (keyboard combination Win +C), in the side menu that appears, select the “Options” section, or using a combination of keyboard buttons Win +I Immediately get the ability to control the shutdown button.
- Another way is to use a keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Alt + Delete, which will allow you to instantly access the lock screen, in the lower right corner of which there will be a treasured button.
The method proposed below is perhaps even simpler, and involves gaining the ability to control shutdown, reboot and hibernation of the computer directly from context menu Explorer, which means that by right-clicking once in any area of the working Windows desktop 8, it becomes possible to control the reboot and shutdown of the computer.
To do this, you need to perform the following operations (or simply download this file and open it in the system):
- Create new Text Document", anywhere on the computer
- Copy the code below
- Paste the code into the created empty document, save
- Change file name extension from . txt on . reg(file name can be anything)
- Double click on this file, enter the data into system registry, and we get the ability to manage power from the context menu, as shown in the above screenshot.
Thus, just once, after spending a little time, we were able to turn off and restart the computer under Windows control 8 is as fast and convenient as possible in principle.
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