Different ways to shutdown ur Personal Computer or Laptop

Among these ways check one of the way to shutdown the Pc or Laptop

1. Press the WIN key and press “u” letter two times this will approach very fast
2. Click the Start Button with your mouse, then select the Turn off menu and click the Turn off icon on the dialogue box which appears on the Computer

3. Press the Win key + R key to open the run window. Type shutdown -s -t 00. [s means shutdown while t means the duration after which you want to initiate the shutdown process].

NOTE: If some open processes or application won't let you turn off, append a -f switch to force a shut down by closing all active processes.

4. Win+M to minimize all windows and then Alt+F4 to bring the Turn Off computer dialog.

5. Click CTRL+ALT+DELETE to open Task manage then click on shutdown then hold the CTRL key and click on Turn off Computer will be turned off .

Shutdown XP Faster

Like previous versions of windows, it takes long time to restart or shutdown windows XP when the "Exit Windows" sound is enabled. To solve this problem you must disable this useless sound.

Click Start button.
Go to settings > Control Panel > Sound, Speech and Audio devices > Sounds and Audio Devices > Sounds.
Then under program events and windows menu click on "Exit Windows" sub-menu and highlight it. Now from sounds you can select, choose "none" and then click Apply and OK.
Now you should see some improvements when shutting down your system.