By shutting down your system all sensitive data in your system memory will be permanently stored to disk before you can switch off your computer. This also ensures that the settings of your Workplace Shell will be saved. It is absolutely necessary to always perform this procedure before you switch off your computer because otherwise some of your data might get lost.

The &xwp; Extended Shutdown (XShutdown) provides a few extra features over OS/2's regular shutdown procedure, such as automatically rebooting your computer, APM power-off (if supported by your machine), and being able to cancel the shutdown procedure. Please see the &xwp; User Guide for details.

XShutdown can be initiated either from the desktop's context menu, if this feature has been enabled in the "&xwp; Setup" object, or from the respective icon in the "&xwp; Installation" folder.

If you have confirmations enabled on the "XShutdown" page in the desktop's settings notebook, you will see the XShutdown confirmation dialog after initiating shutdown.