How To Create A Restart Shortcut On Your Windows 10 Desktop

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Windows 10 Desktop Shortcut To Restart Computer

In this post, we will be showing you how you can add a desktop shortcut that will restart your Windows 10 PC or Laptop.

This is a very fast way of restarting your computer as there is no need to open the start menu then click power and restart.

But just remember to ensure you have saved all of your work before clicking the shortcut as your system will restart very quickly.

You can also set a keyboard shortcut to make Windows 10 restart. Check out this post to see how.

How To Add Restart Shortcut To Your Windows 10 Desktop:

1. Right-click your desktop > New > Shortcut

2. In the location box type “shutdown /r

3. You can now give the shortcut a name > Click on Finish

There you have it that is how you can create a shortcut on your desktop that will restart your computer when you click on it. If you would prefer the shortcut to shutdown Windows 10 instead then check out this post here.

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