Quick shut down or restart!
A great tip submitted by Diego Carmona: quick shut down or restart! This is a pretty cool keyboard shortcut that shuts down or restarts the computer without going through the dialog box that asks if you want to sleep, restart or shut down. The running applications will still ask if you want to save before quitting. To shut down, you simply have to press "Control-Option-Command-Eject" and to restart, its "Control-Command-Eject". You can also get the dialog box with "Control-Eject". The sleep shortcut is "Option-Command-Eject". Thanks Diego for the great tip!
posted by Frederic Tremblay at
4/18/2007
17 Comments:
THANK YOU...!!!!
I noticed that you must hold the Eject key for one second before the shortcut works. It seems like the Eject key reacts the same way as when you press it normally (to eject a disc).
Thanks man for the 1sec push. I knew the command, but since a last update, it seemed to have vanished. But there it is again!
Pressing control-eject pops up a dialog box with sleep, shutdown, restart (and cancel, of course) and then it's one click from there. Not exactly the same as this tip, but pretty close. And perhaps less error prone. :-)
Nice! Thank you
i have been wondering if there was a short cut for this. thanks
lol...and I kept going through all the trouble to shut down with "cntr+F2 (bring focus to white bar at top of screen), down arrow (opens apple menu), up arrow twice to shut down, and enter twice to select and then confirm."
thanks for the tip..it had bothered me not to have a hotkey for this one for a while!
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Is that why when sometimes I push the eject button to eject a disc it doesn't do anything. I have to hold it down longer?
You can also shut down your computer by pressing the Power Button and then pressing R, S, Cmd-./escape, and Return. (Restart, Sleep, Cancel, Shutdown)
Read more about this shortcut here.
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doesn't work... I tried it on my emac and tower. What am I doing wrong?
ohhhhhhh! the eject key! I was pressing the escape key!
ohhhhhhh! the eject key! I was pressing the escape key!
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I have an imac G4, and would like to restore it to its original settings like when you first got it.
Does any know how to do this?
F.Y.I. - I don't have the OSX discs so is there a way to do this without the discs?
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