The DOS command line built into every windows machine can be used to perform a lot of useful tasks. One very helpful task is shutting down your computer. By working your way through a few simple steps, you will find that you are able to easily shut down or restart your computer.
Steps
- Make sure you have an administrative rights on the remote machine and you can PING it.
- On your workstation - Click on Start > Run, Type shutdown -i
- select options to shutdown or restart
- Alternatively - Go to command prompt (start > run > cmd) on your workstation... and Type shutdown -r -m \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxxReplace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with the IP address or computer name of the remote machine. -r option is for restart, don't use -r if want to just shut down the system.
Tips
- Type shutdown -? for more options and control over shutdown command..
Warnings
- Works only for windows servers and workstations.
- Shutdown is not an inherent command in Windows Server. You need to install the Windows Server Admin Pack to get this functionality. Out of the box, this will not work.
