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How to Do a Remote Shutdown for a PC on a LAN
Shutting down a server or other remote computer is possible from the convenience of your own PC. It's not hard to learn to shutdown a remote Windows computer from your own desktop on a LAN. You'll just have to learn the proper computer command shorthands.
Steps
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1Open the command prompt. This may be done by clicking on the "Start" button, and selecting "Run".
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2Type in cmd and press Enter.
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3Type in shutdown -m \\computername, replacing "computername" with the name of the computer you wish to shutdown or the computer's IP address.
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4Experiment with the shutdown command's switches.
- -r will force a restart, disabling any services or user interaction from interrupting it.
- -c "comment" will force a comment to appear on the system being shutdown.
- -t xx will force a timeout for "xx" seconds. For example, -t 60 would perform a shutdown after a 60-second timeout.
- -a will abort the shutdown.
- A full command example: shutdown -m \\myserver -r -c "This system will shutdown in 60 seconds" -t 60
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5Try another method:
- Type shutdown -i in the run window.
- Click the "Add" box and type the name of the computer you want to shutdown or its IP address. You can select what you want the computer to do.
- In this mode, it's necessary to add a comment. Do so.
- Press OK.
