>>Simple question:
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>>How do you shut down a WS2008 machine without using a mouse ?
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>Alt-F4 (the same way you shut down an application without using a mouse)

That's the one I was looking for!
I'm got used to getting to the same place on a 2003 server via Ctrl-Alt-Del and tabbing to shutdown.

Thx to all for other replies (no 'Windows' key here but Ctrl-Esc gets round that)


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>This has the added advantage that, from the dropdown, you can opt to do a plain shutdown rather than "install updates and shut down" if updates are ready to be installed.