Anyway to shut down or lock the computer quickly and easily?

Question

My brother and I take turns using the computer. I've tried getting a little timer that went on the desktop that had a pop up come up when his turn is over but he always has an excuse why he needs to stay on and he gives me a hard time, making me wait a while before he can finally log off. Is there some way I can just press a key on the keyboard to 'lock up' the computer or some other simple way?

Answer 1

If you have a password set, press Start-L.

Answer 2

Do you have another pc on a home network? If so, you can use the shutdown command from XP:

shutdown -m \\computername (you'll need admin credentials)

You can also try PsShutdown from sysinternals.com if you can't find the shutdown program:

PsShutdown is part of PsTools.

PsShutdown \\computername -u username -p password

PsShutdown will work even on an older system that nobody cares to use anymore because it is slow. You still need to be on the network though.

Answer 3

It is very easy.
Try to hibernate it.
In Hibernating, you see that your computer shut down in 2 -3 seconds.

(1) Just go to >>> turn off computer.
(2) Hold down shift key & click on stand by button (which is renamed to hibernate.)
Note : When u start your computer, u see that u log on fastly.

Answer 4

put it on sleep...
if u have a multimedia 109-key keyboard then look for the sleep key on the top tier

OR start>turn off>stand by

Answer 5

unplug the computer, that is instantaneous!