You can restart your Windows computer using just the keyboard using different techniques.

Restart using the Power User Menu
You can restart the computer using power user menu,
Press Win + X to open the Power User menu.
Press U to open the Shut down or sign out menu.
Press R to restart your computer.

Restart using the Ctrl + Alt + Delete
Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete simultaneously.
Press the Tab key until the Power button is selected.
Press Enter button to open the Power menu.
Use the arrow keys to select Restart and press Enter button on the keyboard.

Restart using the Alt + F4 shortcut
You can close all the opened applications by pressing Alt + F4 repeatedly.
Once all applications are closed, press Alt + F4 again to open the Shut Down Windows dialog.
Use the arrow keys to select Restart and press Enter button on the keyboard.

Using any of the methods helps you to restart your Windows computer without touching the mouse. Do it yourself to experience the keyboard combinations to perform a smooth restart. It may help you when your computer freezes or in a moment you couldn’t use your mouse to restart your computer or do anything on your computer screen with your mouse.

But your work is still accessible to anybody by just by waking up the monitor or computer from the sleep. To setup the power and sleep setting, go to ‘Power & sleep’ in System Settings. Click  ‘Power & sleep’ , there you can see the screen turn off time, you can change the time to turn off the screen to sleep when not in use. The same way you can change the sleep mode time.

Now how to protect quickly from unauthorized access in our computer. You can setup a password to login your windows operating system. To set up a password on Windows, go to settings, then select ‘Accounts’, change your password by clicking ‘Change’ in ‘Password’. You can also create a PIN to login or you can use picture password to login to your PC.

To Lock PC you can use any of these methods,

Method 1 : Windows+L
Use the Windows key in keyboard and the L key. Just press Windows+L to lock your PC fast, to unlock hit enter and give the password.

Method 2 : Ctrl+Alt+Del
You can press Ctrl+Alt+Delete. A new full screen menu appears with blue background just click the first item in the menu, ‘Lock’.  Screen is locked now.

Method 3 : Use the Windows Start button
Click the Windows Start button located at the bottom-left corner of your PC’s screen. Click the user icon, a new menu popup select Lock. Screen will be locked.

Method 4 : Automatic locking
Do you want to automatically lock your screen. Go to windows Control Panel  (if you can’t find it, just search Control Panel), in ‘Control Panel’ click ‘Appearance & Personalization’. Then select ‘Change screen saver’ , there you can find a check box asking for ‘On resume, display logon screen’. The time to wait to start the screen saver can also can be set by giving the time in minutes to wait. See the screenshot to find the settings.

Which method you are using? Is there any other ways to lock the screen, if there please let us know.

Keep your PC safe with Windows Defender Antivirus which is built-in to Windows 10, that delivers comprehensive, ongoing and real-time protection against viruses, malware and spyware across email, apps, the cloud and the web. If you are having a third party antivirus installed on your PC, just uninstall all of your other antivirus programs first, Windows Defender Antivirus will automatically turn on (You may be asked to restart your device.).

Windows Defender

Windows Defender Antivirus is built-in to Windows 10, that scan and protect your computer against viruses and threats in real-time. Windows Defender uses real-time protection to scan everything you download or run on your PC. It also uses cloud-based protection (if enabled) to detect and block threats. Windows Defender will use the cloud to analyze the suspicious program, if you enabled the cloud based protection in Windows defender update and security settings. Windows Defender with cloud-based protection and automatic sample submission turned on, Windows defender sends samples to Microsoft malware sample and it will eventually help Microsoft to catch the threats earlier.

Turn-on Realtime Protection

When turn on realtime protection (go to Windows defender settings), defender can detect and stop malware from installing and running on your PC. You can turn this off temporarily, but it will turn-on automatically after some time. Select the Start button, then select Settings, go to Update & Security.
Select Windows Defender, then turn Real-time protection on or off.

Schedule a scan in Windows Defender

Windows Defender regularly scans your PC, but if you want to set your own scan schedule here is a trick.

Search for and open Schedule tasks.
In the left pane, expand Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows and then scroll down and double-click the Windows Defender folder.
In the top-center pane, double-click Windows Defender Scheduled Scan.?
Select the Triggers tab, and then select New.
Set your time and frequency, and then select OK.

Types of Scans on Windows Defender

You can run a quick scan or advanced scan to check your device’s safety.

• Quick scan

If you’re concerned that you may have done something to introduce a suspicious file or virus to your device, use a quick scan to immediately check your device. Quick scan also saves you time when you don’t want to run a full scan on all your files and folders.

• Full scan

Checks the files and programs that are currently running on your device.

• Custom scan

Scan specific files or folders on your device.

• Windows Defender Offline scan

Run this scan when you are concerned that your device has been, or could potentially be, infected by a virus or malware. Run an offline scan to find and remove malware that can’t be found with a normal scan. To do this, select Scan offline in the Windows Defender settings.

Use enhanced notifications

If enhanced notification is off, you’ll get only critical notifications when a threat is found. If the enhanced notification is on, you’ll get critical notifications and additional notifications, like completed scans and recent Windows Defender activity. You can also see the results of your previous scans, and get the latest protection offered by Windows Defender Antivirus.

Ransomware protection

You can protect your valuable data and documents from ransomware attacks by using controlled folder access.

Windows Defender Security Center offers five type protections

• Virus & threat protection

This will monitor threats to your computer, run scans, and get updates to help detect the latest threats.

• Device performance & health

See status about your device’s performance health and keep your device clean and up to date with the latest version of Windows 10.

• Firewall & network protection

Manage the settings for Windows Defender Firewall, and monitor what’s happening with your networks and Internet connections.

• App and browser control

Lets you use Windows Defender SmartScreen to help protect your device against potentially dangerous apps, files, sites, and downloads. Also provides exploit protection where you can customize protection settings for your devices.

• Family options

Provides easy access to managing your childrens’ online experiences and the devices in your household.

Did you configured your Windows defender for realtime virus protection, did you regularly update the virus database ? Which antivirus you are using, can you tell is it provide you adequate protection from all threats and ransomware’s.

Use the search box

First, type what you’re looking for in the search box on the taskbar. The suggestions and answers to your questions will be displayed, and also search results from your PC and the web. Want to find more results of a certain type, then select the Find results in icon above the search box for apps, settings, documents, folders, photos, videos, music, email, calendar, people, or the web. Here is a search for sleep shows various results.

Tips app

You can find out what’s new and some helpful tips on how to do anything with Windows using tips app. To get the tips app, select the Start button, type tips, and then select Tips at the top of the list of results.

Get help

Select the Get help button (a blue button carrying a white question mark) on right side of the settings page or on Windows tools to get help. So when you’re in some Settings, click the Get help button link, you can ask the virtual agent for help.
Here is a screenshot of famous snipping tool, just look at the right corner you can see the Get help link button.

You can also get help on Windows 10 from official Windows 10 support.  You can also look into official Windows 10 answers section.

First, we have to go through the traditional way. Windows has a System Configuration Utility, you may hear it as MSConfig. This is a useful tool for managing and controlling startup programs. You can access the MSConfig, on Windows versions XP and prior, click Start -> Run, and in the run box, enter “msconfig”, on Vista and 7, type “msconfig” into the search box in the main menu. The System Configuration Utility appears as shown in the below screenshot. Click the Startup tab (the last tab). There you will see a list of programs that start when your computer starts.To stop a program from automatically launching when you boot the computer, uncheck the box next to its entry. Remember, take appropriate precautions when disabling items in MSConfig, some items are necessary to start up and working of essential tools like antivirus. You can also do this easily using some dedicated tools. Some of the highly useful tools are discussed below.

Starter
(http://codestuff.tripod.com/products_starter.html)

The starter is a free application which allows to view and manage all the programs that are starting automatically whenever operating system is loading. The tool enumerates all the hidden registry entries, startup folders’ items and some of the initialization files, so that the user could choose to temporarily disable selected entries, edit them, create new, or delete them permanently. This tool can also be used to list all the running processes with possibility to view extended process’ information (such as used DLLs, memory usage, thread count, priorities etc.), and to terminate selected process. The starter is a freeware, the user interface is pretty simple and has a lot of options that are self-explanatory. It works well on Microsoft Windows 9x, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista operating systems.

Autoruns
(Download Autoruns)

This is a tiny utility for startup monitor which shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. You can easily manage processes using the clear user interface.

Argente
(Download Argente)

Many applications, when you install, are configured to run automatically when Windows starts, which is not always necessary. Argente StartUp Manager is a utility that displays all the applications that start with Windows. You can block elements like spyware and adware from automatically loading that follow your movements on the Internet and consume the bandwidth of your connection. 

Quick Startup
(Quick Startup at glarysoft)

Quick Startup is a quick and simple startup manager designed specially to speed up Windows boot by delaying some programs auto-startup after system boot, or removing unnecessary programs that snatch resources to launch themselves at the system boot. Quick Startup works to arrange the auto-start programs and makes enough resources for system boot, speeding up PC loading to the fastest performance,you can see the application screenshot.

Advanced Startup Manager
(Unfailingsoft Advanced Startup Manager)

Autorun management is with just a few clicks, you can put any program, file, folder, or Internet connection on a special list, and then it will start automatically whenever you log into your system. Advanced Startup Manager offers user-friendly interface, full support of drag and drop, fast operation, and reliability.The tool has a nice interface to manage the process.

Cleaner: Startup Manager
(http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner)

You may notice this simple tool and may have used this tool. But most of the users don’t know that it is also equipped with a startup manager. CCleaner removes unused files from your system allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up hard disk space. The tool also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. It contains a fully featured registry cleaner and startup manager. This is our favorite tool,  to be frank this is the only tool needed to do a disk cleanup, registry cleanup and handling startup programs.

What is your opinion about the tools? Each tool has its own feature set and tools. You can choose your own tool. If you want an all in one tool CCleaner is the best tool to consider. The time tested tool comes with disk cleaner, registry cleaner and startup manager, moreover it is free to use!