The elusive Shutdown and Restart for Windows 8 - Solved, Kiddies!

First of all, begin by making regular desktop shortcuts (as in Windows 7) for the Restart and Shutdown, as follows:- Right-click an empty spot on your desktop to get the little menu which includes the word 'New' in seventh spot from its top. From 'New' you can get onto another menu of choices for it, and click on the one for 'Shortcut'. This will open the Shortcut Wizard, and above its box with the flashing cursor, it will say "Type the location of the item". In that little box, carefully type the following using lower case font: For a Shutdown shortcut, type shutdown.exe -s -f -t00 and the spacing is important too. Once again, that's typed as shutdown.exe followed by a single space, then a -s for shutdown followed by another single space, then a -f meaning force-close any open programs, and then another single space and a -t00 which means the time delay for doing all this is 00 seconds. You can leave out the -f for force-closing if you like, but make sure you only have a single space between those other codes.

Similarly, for the Restart you type shutdown.exe -r -t00 which means shut down and restart with a time delay of 00 seconds. After you type your Shutdown or Restart codes into the little box, you click on the word Next at the bottom and you will be asked to name your new generic icon which has now popped up on your desktop. You have to do that whole operation twice - once for each shortcut, and then you should probably look for a nice icon to use for each.

With those new shortcuts now operational on your desktop, you can right-click on each of them, and make a copy of each in another convenient folder (mine's named Shortcuts) where I store extra ones or others I don't want cluttering up the desktop. Those extras will come in handy in a minute..... when we get to the next step, which is creating tiles on that fancy Start Screen for our Shutdown and Restart. Dwight wants these, and here's the way I did it....

Park that folder with your spare icons in it against the right side of your screen using the old Windows Key plus Right Arrow trick. Then, navigate to the following folder (but first, unhide your hidden folders in Folder Options so you can see it) and the one you want is Username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories. Open that Accessories folder, and park it against the left side of your screen, so it is beside the one with your extra shortcuts in it and then simply right-click your shortcuts and use Copy To, or you could just drag them over into Accessories. Either way, you want copies of them in that folder. Because....now you can close those windows, go back onto that Start Screen with all the tiles, and type something like Shutdown or maybe Restart and you will be shown its little shortcut which you can pin or drag around to a suitable spot of your choice. And now, you have Shutdown and Restarts handy on both your Desktop and your Start Screen. The former being desktop icons, and the latter being little tiles among the others. I dragged mine over beside the tile for the Desktop. They look like this.......

And Dwight, if you're reading this, enjoy your day!