Restarting a Remote PC thru Remote Desktop

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sandman78

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I have always typed "shutdown -r" at the command prompt to restart a remote machine thru remote desktop, and "shutdown -s" for shutdown. Is there a better way of doing it? The remote machines are XP Pro. I'm wondering if there is a way to restart the remote without using command prompt. Thanks.
 
go into the task manager, there is a reboot menu there, can shutdown, log off, restart.
 
or make a batch file with the command. you can the just run it or task schedule it if you like.
 
do you mean shutdown -r and shutdown -s?

nothing wrong with doing it that way. if it's on your lan you can use the -m switch and not even go through remote desktop
 
da sponge said:
do you mean shutdown -r and shutdown -s?

nothing wrong with doing it that way. if it's on your lan you can use the -m switch and not even go through remote desktop
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Ooops :D Thanks for correcting me. I edited the post and corrected it.
 
you can always go start - settings and there will be an icon for windows security that will allow you to shut it down
 
you can initiate a shutdown remotely without a command line by using vbscript and WMI as long as you have administrative access to the remote PC.

For MANY remote operations on a pc, WMI is your friend.
 
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