Make the Sleep Shortcut in Windows 8

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Hi! You're watching VisiHow! This is a tutorial on how to make a sleep shortcut on Windows 8 computers. In this video, the "sleep.txt" file is opened by clicking it. The text is copied. To do this, the text is highlighted and right-clicked. Then, "Copy" is clicked. These steps are reproduced in step 1.

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   We copy the text from the line below

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   • rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0
     

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   Now we need to right-click an empty space on the desktop

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   Then, we move the mouse cursor to "New"

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   Then, we click "Shortcut"

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   Now, we need to simply paste the copied text into the text box

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   We do it by right-clicking the text box and selecting "Paste".

   

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   Then, we click "Next"

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7. 7
   We need to call this shortcut

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   Let's name it "Sleep". We can call it whatever we want; but in this video, it is "Sleep".

   

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   Then, we click "Finish"

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   Once this is done, a shortcut will be created.

   

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   If we double-click the "Sleep" icon, the computer will go to sleep

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