SOLVED How to get an on screen shortcut to restart & power off laptop in Windows 10

[The catalyst]

I want to be able to have an icon on my laptop screen that allows me to restart the laptop or to power off the laptop, rather than to go through multiple clicks via the Windows logo. Is this possible?

 

[Trouble]

Sure. Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and Windows 8 was the OS driving everyone nuts, those shortcuts that you're asking about were all the rage.
Rather than reinvent the wheel
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/create-shutdown-restart-log-off-suspend-shortcuts

I'm pretty sure that should do it.

 

[The catalyst]

Sure. Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and Windows 8 was the OS driving everyone nuts, those shortcuts that you're asking about were all the rage.
Rather than reinvent the wheel
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/create-shutdown-restart-log-off-suspend-shortcuts

I'm pretty sure that should do it.

I did what you suggest for both Shutdown and Restart, but neither icon works- The screen flickers momentarily, but remains on in both cases.

 

[Trouble]

IDK.... I just did two myself on my machine and found that they both work as advertised.

 

[The catalyst]

IDK.... I just did two myself on my machine and found that they both work as advertised.

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Many thanks for your followup. I tried it again, but it did not work as you outlined above, but your 2 images above led me to wonder whether it was because I have a 64 bit machine. I did some more searching on the WWW for restart shortcut to Windows 10 with 64 bit" and came upon several options, each a little different. This one worked: I follow everything you said at the start above, but instead of typing in the location of item window "Shutdown -r -t 00 " in the shortcut command window, I used "%windir%\System32\shutdown.exe /s /t 0" for shutdown and "%windir%\System32\shutdown.exe /r /t 0" for restart. Both substitutions worked.

 

[Trouble]

Glad you managed to resolve your issue and thanks for the follow-up information.