Shutdowner

Shutdowner is a lightweight Yahoo! widget built specifically for helping you shut down, restart, or lock your computer, or send it to hibernation mode.

It comes in handy for all users who didn’t get acquainted to working with the Windows 8 operating system and need to bring back the basic shutdown functionality to their desktop.

The gadget sports a clean and simplistic layout that allows you to select the action that you want to trigger.

When it comes to configuration settings, you are allowed to activate a countdown timer by specifying the time in hours, minutes, and seconds, change the colors for the background, cancelling tab, and info bar, play sound notifications, as well as enable the docking mode.

Other options offered by the Yahoo! environment give you the possibility to prevent the windows from being dragged, set the opacity level, and ignore mouse events.

You can also make the gadget stay on top of other applications, and this proves to pretty useful, especially when dealing with multiple tools at the same time. What’s more, you can hide or close the widget, and move it to any area of the screen.

Since it doesn’t require much computer knowledge to set up the dedicated parameters, even rookies can master the entire process with minimum effort.

During our testing we have noticed that Shutdowner carries out a task quickly. As it would be expected from such a small utility, it remains light on system resources, so it doesn’t burden the overall performance of the computer, nor interfere with other programs’ functionality.

To sum things up, Shutdowner offers a handy set of parameters for helping you carry out several actions on the breeze.