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Creating Shutdown tile in Windows 8

Shutting down or rebooting Windows 8 is pain without using the Start button. Many users may want to shutdown the system with just one click. This post shows the script to enable users create a tile on windows start screen for shutting down or rebooting the system.

In Windows 8 Start menu was replaced by Start Screen

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1. Open Windows PowerShell as an administrator

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2. After opening a Windows PowerShell you need to write import module command let  and run the below command

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if you want three tiles on your screen then you can run the New-OSCWindowsTile directly

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3. Now you can see three tiles on start screen as shown below

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4. If the execution policy does not allow to run the above commands then you can run the below command first

Set-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted

More on execution policies can be read here

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