Mac Os X - Force Reboot

If your mac icon isn't working on the system menu, then here are 2 quick ways to achieve the same.

1. Ctrl-Cmd-Eject works - does a force reboot.
2. Open a terminal and type in:

sudo reboot

(sudo is required if you are not an admin)

or you can use

sudo shutdown -r  which is mentioned to be more gracious and other options.

Cross-posted from 

http://bschandramohan.blogspot.in/2013/02/system-restart-mac-os-x.html

Open Terminal window here - Mac OS X

It isn't as easy as updating registry key in windows (or atleast I don't know). Found this link to be good source for app to do that.

https://sites.google.com/site/michaelsafyan/software-engineering/open-in-terminal
Chose the one with customized terminal window icon.
If the folder Finder doesn't exist in your 'Application Support' directory, then do create it.

If you have any other easy ways of doing this, let me know.