• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

TweakHound

Computer stuff...

  • Home
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 10
  • Linux
  • Tweak Guides
  • Site Info
    • About
    • About Me
    • Contact
    • My Computers
    • Old Articles
    • Old Index

Create Shutdown, Restart, Logoff Tiles For Windows 8

shutdwn_tile

October 15, 2013, 15:33(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

shutdwn_tileThere are a couple of ways to create these tiles but I thought y’all might enjoy this.

I found a script over at the TechNet Script Center:
Create a Shutdown/Restart/Logoff Windows 8 Tile for the Start menu (PowerShell)
This is a good introduction to running PowerShell scripts on Windows 8. Here are the steps I took:

1 – Download the script from the page above, unzip it, read Documentation.htm.

2 – Open PowerShell as Admin. I just right-click the Powershell icon in All Apps view and choose Run as Admin.

3 – Running PowerShell scripts is disabled by default. We need to temporarily enable it. Type (or copy / paste):
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
press Enter

4 – Start module, type (where E: = location of file)
Import-Module E:\CreateWindowsTile.ps1
press Enter
You should see:
Create Windows shutdown tile successfully.
Create Windows restart tile successfully.
Create Windows log off tile successfully.

5 – Disable scripts, type (or copy / paste):
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Restricted
press Enter. Close PowerShell.

6 – New tiles will be in All Apps view.

Notes:
If notepad keeps popping up:
1 – Ensure you enabled scripts.
2 – .ps1 filetypes may need to be associated (open with) with PowerShell. PowerShell.exe location is:
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\

wintiles

Tagged With: How-To's, This Site, Windows 8

Reader Interactions

Primary Sidebar

buywin10_side_s

Popular Articles

Hot

My Rescue Flash Drive

Windows 10

Tweaking Windows 10

My Windows 10 Tweaks

Windows 10 Game Only Tweaks

Windows 10 Privacy Settings

Win10 Diagnostics Tracking Service Gone?

Windows 10 Advanced Disk Cleanup

Win10 Customize Installation Options

All Windows 10 Articles

Windows 8

Tweaking Windows 8.1

Advice On Installing Windows 8.1

How To Fix The Windows Bootloader

All Windows 8/8.1 Articles

Windows 7

Installing Windows 7

Tweaking Windows 7

Blocking Windows 7 Telemetry

Fix – Windows 7 Update Not Working

Windows 7 Diagnostics Tracking Service

The Windows 7 Freeware Machine

The Windows 7 Pagefile And Running Without One

Bad Tweaks

SSD Tweak Guide (sort of)

The noguiboot (no GUI Boot) Tweak

NtfsMemoryUsage=2 Tweak

More Windows 7 articles here.

Windows Vista

Installing Windows Vista

Tweaking Windows Vista

More Windows Vista articles here.

Windows XP

eXPired - The Last Windows XP Guide You'll Ever Need

The Right Way To Install Windows XP

Super XP Tweaking Guide

Bad Tweaks

More XP Articles here and here.

Backup

Backup Article Greatest Hits – Vol. 1

Other

Fun With Audio Players – 2015

Cataloging Your Music Collection

Finding Good Album Art

Converting Vinyl Records To Digital Music – A Non-Audiophiles Guide

SSD Tweak Guide (sort of)

Raidmax Blackstorm Case Review

Disk Partitioning

Checking Your Disks For Problems

Bad Tweaks

More articles here

Tags

  • Android
  • Backup
  • Beer
  • Computer Hardware
  • Computer News
  • Cool Tools
  • Freeware
  • Funny
  • How-To's
  • Linux
  • Off Topic
  • openSUSE
  • Privacy
  • Security
  • Software
  • This Site
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP

RSS Feed RSS - Posts

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

TweakHound - Optimize Your Computing Experience!

TweakHound - Optimize Your Computing Experience!

Copyright 2002-2018 by Eric Vaughan All material contain here is the property of the materials owner. Windows, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Seven, Windows 8, Windows 10, Microsoft, and all associated logos are trademarks/property of Microsoft. You may not use or copy any material from tweakhound.com without expressed written permission. Hotlinking to any material within this site is forbidden.

Privacy Policy