Get rid of those unnecessary clicks
How to Add Shutdown and Restart to the Right-Click Context Menu
In Windows 8, the Start menu is now gone, replaced by the Start screen and Charms bar. This means that if you want to restart your computer, you need to open the Charms bar, click Settings, click the Power icon, and then click Restart. You can read my previous post which goes into more detail about shutting down and restarting Windows 8, including how to add a shortcut tile to the Start screen.
However, this is a big step backwards in terms of efficiency. What used to be two clicks is now multiple clicks and either mouse maneuvers or keyboard shortcuts. Many people won’t want to have to go through that procedure every time they want to shut down or restart their PC. Also, even with the shortcut tile on the Start screen, I still didn’t like having to navigate to the Start screen to restart or shut down my PC.
In this article I will show you a quick way to add the Restart and Shutdown commands to the right-click context menu on the desktop. This is what it will look like when you right-click on the desktop:
