You press Windows Key or, if you prefer, Control + Escape, then press tab once and then arrow down to the bottom of that list and you will find Power which contains the commands to sign out, sleep,

Wow, I am really amazed how huge a thread this simple question has become. The fact is that there are many ways in Windows to get to the Power menu where you can select to sleep, restart or shutdown

Hi, Actually, there are Windows releases/editions that does not include a graphical interface. For these, you would use shutdown command from command-line interface (PowerShell, for example). You can

Hi, In Windows 11, after opening Start menu, press Shift+Tab, then press right arrow to move focus to Power, press Enter, and you should see power options. This procedure might change in the

Greetings: I favor the option of shutting down from the Desktop with ALT+F4. Why? Because it works no matter what version of Windows you are running. If you don't have a Windows key (surprise

Hi again. I did finally find the Shutdown option with CTRL+ESC. I had to hit DOWN ARROW five times to get to it, so it's why I didn't find it right away. Just letting folks know. Kevin, Valerie

Hi, Shutdown options in Start menu/screen can be found if you scroll down after focusing on "User options for {username}", and this has changed in Windows 11 (more on that in

- Which is precisely what the Windows Key does, too, initially. CTRL + ESC, immediately followed by TAB, immediately followed by down arrowing to the Power item in the start menu and activating it

Hi. In Windows 10, CTRL+ESC took me to the search box. Hitting DOWN ARROW gave me a list of all the apps. TABbing didn't take me to a shutdown option. Kevin, Valerie and Jilly

- It has been so long since I've encountered a keyboard without a Windows Key I had forgotten this. Not that I think I'm likely to ever use it again, but thanks to both you and Milton for a trip down

control+escape is the old school equivalent of pressing the windows key, therefore Milton is correct.

- Open Control Panel, Power Options, Choose what the power button does link and tweak away with the dropdown boxes for When I press the power button. -- Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H1,

hi Frank, could you please tell us how to do this?

Even faster, hit Alt Enter for properties, rather than Shift F10 or the applications key. All the best Steve -- To subscribe to our News and Special Offers list, go to

Milton: INSERT+F4, is the JAWS short cut keystroke, for unloading JAWS. HTH Dave

 Brian: A quicker way to open the properties for an icon on the desktop, folder or file on any drive, is to highlight any one of these items, and press ALT+ENTER. HTH Dave

Just to add another option into the mix; in power options you can configure the power button to trigger a shut down. Sincerely, Frank Ventura frank.ventura@... ~Sent from my Apple Mac Book Air~

Freedom Scientific has done an excellent webinar on MS Edge, answering a lot of *my questions about the app. To listen or download 1. go to the JAWS screen. 2. Press alt-h (help) 3. Press r

And, for yet another option, you can create a desktop shortcut to do an immediate shutdown for your computer: 1. Once you have focus on the desktop, hit the Applications/Menu Key or SHIFT+F10,

the official way is to press the windows key and x at the same time, and then press u and then u to shutdown, r for restart.