{"id":684,"date":"2018-11-06T18:56:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T18:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=684"},"modified":"2026-02-11T15:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:58:47","slug":"how-to-log-off-a-windows-10-computer","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/?ht_kb=how-to-log-off-a-windows-10-computer","title":{"rendered":"How to Log Off a Windows Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u><strong>Choose one of the below 4 methods to successfully log off and sign out of a Windows 10 computer<\/strong><\/u><br \/>\n1. Click the Start Menu icon, click the account icon (about 5 icons above the start menu), then choose Sign Out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-685\" src=\"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LogOff1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LogOff1.jpg 196w, https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LogOff1-144x300.jpg 144w, https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LogOff1-24x50.jpg 24w, https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LogOff1-29x60.jpg 29w, https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LogOff1-48x100.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0Press ALT + F4 together, choose Sign Out, Click OK.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2801\" src=\"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sign-out-windows-11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sign-out-windows-11.png 634w, https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sign-out-windows-11-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sign-out-windows-11-50x16.png 50w, https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sign-out-windows-11-60x19.png 60w, https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sign-out-windows-11-100x32.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0\u00a0Right click on the Start button, Navigate to Shut Down or sign out, choose Sign out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-687\" src=\"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LogOff3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LogOff3.jpg 351w, https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LogOff3-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LogOff3-39x50.jpg 39w, https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LogOff3-47x60.jpg 47w, https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LogOff3-79x100.jpg 79w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0\u00a0Press\u00a0<strong>Ctrl<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Alt<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Del<\/strong>\u00a0keys at the same time, and then select\u00a0<strong>Sign out<\/strong>\u00a0in the options.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-688\" src=\"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LogOff4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LogOff4.jpg 555w, https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LogOff4-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LogOff4-50x34.jpg 50w, https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LogOff4-60x41.jpg 60w, https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LogOff4-100x68.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choose one of the below 4 methods to successfully log off and sign out of a Windows 10 computer 1. Click the Start Menu icon, click the account icon (about 5 icons above the start menu), then choose Sign Out. 2.\u00a0\u00a0Press ALT + F4 together, choose Sign Out, Click OK&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[20],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-684","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/684\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fht-kb-category&post=684"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fht-kb-tag&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}