How many times it has happened to Shutdown your computer by mistake? Or after you shutdown the computer to remember that you haven’t saved a file, or that you had something else you needed to add, or that you haven’t done whatever. There are many reasons for which you might want to stop the Shutdown process, and the fact that you have to wait for your PC to shutdown and then to turn it on again to finish or continue your work is very irritating.
To save yourself from these kind of situations we recommend that you create keyboard shortcut that aborts the shutdown process of your computer when the process is initiated by mistake, sooner than it should.
One thing to remember! The Abort Shutdown shortcut only works of the Shutdown is also initiated with the help of a shortcut. If you use the Shtdown button from the Start menu or if you use the Ctrl+Alt+Delete keyboard combination, you will not be able to abort the shutdown process. Considering this, you will first need to create a Shutdown keyboard shortcut.
Shutdown Computer Shortcut
- right click on Desktop and select New from the menu, then Shortcut.
- In the box under Type the location of the item write the following:
%SystemRoot%\System32\shutdown.exe -s -t 30 ( s = shutdown command and -t 30 is the time before the Shutdown process )
- Name your Shortcut ( For example: Shutdown Computer )
- then pick an icon for then new shortcut ( right click on shortcut > Properties > change icon )
Abort Shutdown Shortcut
- Right click again on Desktop and again you have to select New > Shortcut
- Under Type the location of the item write the following:
%SystemRoot%\System32\shutdown.exe –a (a = abort shutdown process command)
- Name the Shortcut
To assign the shortcut to the keyboard, right click on it and select Properties, then in the Shortcut Key field type A. This will be automatically completed with the Ctrl+Alt combination. Ctrl+Alt is the default key combination for Shortcut key.
That’s it! It you ever shutdown your computer by mistake or in a hurry, you can use the Ctrl+Alt+A keyboard combination to abort the process. However, as we mentioned above this will only work if you use the shutdown shortcut to shutdown the computer.
