When I want to shut down, that's what I want. Is there a short cut for that instead of mouse over to the Apple icon, click Sign Out, then another window popup and I have click one more time. Is there any faster way?
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Press the power button then click shutdown.
Not to safely shut down, no. You can press and hold the power button in an emergency (if the mouse or menus are not responding).
The shutdown process has to close out caches, clear temp files, write any cached data to disk, and a number of specific steps to ensure your system goes down cleanly and will thus boot back up properly as well. Bypassing the normal shutdown procedure will lead to problems, potentially catastrophic ones, eventually, as anyone who has just yanked the cord out can likely attest to.
I didnt say press and hold, shortly press power button then click shut down.
you have te options restart, sleep , cancel, shutdown.
I was not responding to you (as indicated by the "in response to" tag in my post).
Press the Power button, then hit the Enter key.
There should be no need to select a screen button with the trackpad, because Shutdown is already highlighted.
SP Forsythe wrote:
Press the Power button, then hit the Enter key.
There should be no need to select a screen button with the trackpad, because Shutdown is already highlighted.
I'll give that a try. I just hate to mouse over to the Apple logo, click, scroll down and click sign out, then a popup window comes up, mouse over to the option to shut down, then click that option, then click okay for the last step to shut it down.
I need a faster (short cut key -- perhaps) that will bypass most these steps above but still shuts down properly.
Just as an aside, you could do like many of us do and just not shut down. Since at least my toilet seat iBook circa 10 years ago, I generally only shut down my Apple computers when not using them for long periods. Otherwise, they are just on 24/7 and I sleep them instead of shutting down - makes it much faster to come and go from sessions at the computer.
That option is literally 2 clicks (presses) and done...theres not an instant switch.
^^ I also just sleep mine.
Surprised nobody knows.
It's Control+Option+Command+Eject.
Eject is the button the top right corner. Has a triangle with a straight line undernearth. Usually opens up the CD drive.
Nukedoom,
Not everyone has an almost three plus year old Macbook Air. The eject key has not been on the MBA since the 2010 edition. The 2011 & 2012 MBA's do not have an EJECT key.
Ahh, okay then. I stand corrected.
Is there a short cut to shut computer down?
