It isn't all fluffed out yet with the usual collection of desktop shortcuts, but it's definitely up and running and this blog entry is proof! I'm getting very good at re-installing Windows, whether I wanted to or not.... But really, it's often the quickest solution, rather than waste hours combing through seemingly endless community forums and so-called 'advice' pages, where I really do have to wonder if those guys have the knowledge they pretend to be dispensing so pretentiously. Some of the comments offered in there make me think we're dealing with a few kids from primary school, rather than adults. And we very well might be, for all I know. And others have a poor command of English, or don't bother to double-check their text in a Translator program they may be using. And others really ought to use a Translator, so we could figure out just what they want fixed.
Now Microsoft is accepting our suggestions, here's one: Build in a Translator in our next Windows. And since English is the language of business the world over, let's have it made so it automatically translates Swahili from Bunga-Bunga and other romantic-but-confounding-linguistics into good old English, so we can find some common ground upon which to exhibit our ignorance!
Here's the Desktop showing a usual set of desktop icons, and this time, I've added a new one, for 'Log Off', which puts you back to the Lock Screen, for those times when you don't want to shut it down completely.
You make the shortcut for it like you do for Restart or Shutdown, but with a different instruction on the ending, as follows:-
On an empty area of the Desktop, right-click it, and choose "New" and then "Shortcut". Then, as shown below, in the window that opens, type a location as shown, ( C:\Windows\system32\shutdown.exe /l ) - and that's one space after the end of "shutdown.exe" and then a forward slash followed by a lower-case L. (The screenshot isn't too clear on that part, because the cursor was captured along with the typing, so I'm being tedious here, so you'll get it just right.)
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