Right-Click Menu for Shutdown, Log-off, Sleep and Restarting Windows

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Having some problem finding how to shutdown, restart and configuring your new version of Windows through control panel? Having some difficulty accessing previous applets like folder option?

Adding Right-Click Menu items to desktop especially to icons like computer and network are really useful in everyday computing.

For the Computer icon with right-click menu items as shown above, Here’s the Registry file that can be patch for Windows 8: Download Now (version 1.0 8/31/2012)

If your a computer enthusiast, computer expert or just studying, here’s the technical details of the tweak.

Technical details of the Commands and Windows registry

Shutdown your Computer

Shutdown.exe -s -t 00

Description: Force Windows to shutdown immediately

Shutdown.exe -s (After 30 seconds)

Restarting the Computer

Shutdown.exe -r -t 00

Description: Force Windows to close all programs and restart immediately

Sleep Computer

rundll32.exe Powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Sleep

Lock your Computer

rundll32.exe user32.dll LockWorkStation

Switch to User

tsdiscon.exe

Hibernate Computer

rundll32.exe Powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Hibernate

Details for Windows Registry

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons


\NewStartPanel] 


"{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"="0"


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Hibernate] 


"icon"="C:\\Windows\\system32\\imageres.dll,27"


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Hibernate\command] 


@="rundll32.exe Powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Hibernate"


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Lock] 


"icon"="C:\\Windows\\system32\\imageres.dll,54"


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Lock\command] 


@="Rundll32.exe user32.dll LockWorkStation"


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Restart] 


"icon"="C:\\Windows\\system32\\imageres.dll,95"


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Restart\command] 


@="Shutdown.exe -r -t 00"


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Shutdown] 


"icon"="C:\\Windows\\system32\\shell32.dll,137"


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Shutdown\command] 


@="Shutdown.exe -s -t 00"


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Sleep] 


"icon"="C:\\Windows\\system32\\imageres.dll,192"


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Sleep\command] 


@="Rundll32.exe Powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Sleep"


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Switch user] 


"icon"="C:\\Windows\\system32\\imageres.dll,83"


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Switch user\command] 


@="tsdiscon.exe"