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How to Remotely Shutdown or Restart a Windows Computer<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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This article will show you how to use the remote shutdown command tool in Windows to remotely shutdown or restart a local or networked computer. This can be very useful sometimes if you have multiple computers at home or on your network that you want to quickly shutdown or restart.<\/div>\n
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You can even remotely shutdown a computer over the Internet, but you would first have to either VPN into the network or into the target computer you want to shut down. I\u2019m not going to cover VPNs in this article, but if that\u2019s something you want to do, feel free to Google it.<\/p>\n

You can perform a remote shutdown from the command prompt using the shutdown command and its associated switches, from the remote shutdown dialog box, or from a batch file. I\u2019ll go through all three methods in this article.<\/p>\n

Remote Shutdown Overview<\/h2>\n

In order to get this to work, there are a couple of steps you have to complete first otherwise you\u2019ll constantly get an\u00a0Access is Denied (5)<\/strong>\u00a0error message and it will drive you mad.<\/p>\n

Step 1<\/strong>: Firstly, in order to remotely shutdown a computer on your network, you\u2019ll need to make sure you have Administrative access to the target\u00a0computer. If you\u2019re on a home network, the best way to do this is to make sure all computers are in the same workgroup and that they all have at least one Administrator account with the same username and password.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to use the built-in administrator account on either computer for this to work, but the user account you do use on both computers has to be part of the Administrators group on the local computer. If you go to Control Panel and click on\u00a0User Accounts<\/strong>\u00a0and it says\u00a0Administrator<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0Local Administrator<\/strong>, then you\u2019re fine. Again, the names of the user accounts and the password have to be the same.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re in a corporate environment with a domain, you will probably want to login using the domain administrator account. Using those credentials, you should be able to shutdown any other computer on the network, even if they are logged in using different credentials.<\/p>\n

Step 2<\/strong>: The second step is to turn on\u00a0File and Printer Sharing<\/strong>\u00a0and to allow it through the Windows firewall. To do this, go to Control Panel and click on\u00a0Network and Sharing Center<\/strong>first. Click on the\u00a0Change advanced sharing settings<\/strong>\u00a0link in the left menu and select the radio button for\u00a0Turn on network discovery<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Turn on file and printer sharing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Go back to the main Control Panel window and click on Windows Firewall. Click on the\u00a0Allow a program or feature through Windows Firewall<\/strong>\u00a0in the left menu.<\/p>\n

\"file<\/a><\/p>\n

Make sure you only check the\u00a0Home\/Work (Private)<\/strong>\u00a0box and not Public. You do not need to allow anything else through the firewall. You might read on other sites to allow WMI, Remote Shutdown, Network Discovery, etc, but I\u2019ve tested it without any of those and it works just fine.<\/p>\n

Step 3<\/strong>: Lastly, if you are trying to target a Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8 computer remotely, you will need to modify the registry. Unless you do this, it simply won\u2019t work. You will only get the Access is Denied message no matter what.<\/p>\n

Open the registry editor by going to Start and typing in\u00a0regedit<\/strong>. Now navigate to the following key:<\/p>\n

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \u2013 SOFTWARE \u2013 Microsoft \u2013 Windows \u2013 CurrentVersion \u2013 Policies \u2013 System<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right-click on\u00a0System<\/strong>\u00a0on the left hand side and choose\u00a0New \u2013 DWORD (32-bit) Value<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"new<\/a><\/p>\n

A new value will pop up at the bottom in the right window and the text will be highlighted. Change the name to\u00a0LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy<\/strong>\u00a0and press Enter. Now double-click on it and change the value from 0 to\u00a01<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Click OK and close out of the registry. You don\u2019t need to restart the computer as the changes should take effect immediately. This registry key is needed because in Windows Vista and higher, an administrator account is stripped of its credentials when connecting remotely. This will allow the account to remain with administrative privileges.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll also read on other sites to start the\u00a0Remote Registry<\/strong>\u00a0service if that\u2019s not running and to edit the local security policy by adding the\u00a0Everyone<\/strong>\u00a0group to\u00a0Force shutdown from a remote system<\/strong>\u00a0policy setting. In my testing on Windows 7 and 8, there was no need to complete these tasks and you really shouldn\u2019t because it opens up your system to potential hackers.<\/p>\n

Obviously, you\u2019ll also need to know all the names of the other computers on the network. You can do that by going to\u00a0Control Panel<\/strong>\u00a0and then clicking on\u00a0System<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Remote Shutdown via Command Prompt<\/h2>\n

The shutdown command is most flexible when using it from the command prompt because you can add a bunch of switches to it, which allow you to customize the behavior. Go to\u00a0Start<\/strong>, then\u00a0Run<\/strong>, and type in\u00a0CMD<\/strong>. You can see the list of switches by typing shutdown \/? in the command window.<\/p>\n

\"shutdown<\/a><\/p>\n

You have to use at least one switch in order for the command to do anything. Basically you would type in\u00a0shutdown \/x \/y \/z<\/strong>\u00a0where x, y, z are letters in the list above.<\/p>\n

Here are a couple of the most common command switches and the\u00a0actions they perform:<\/p>\n

\/s:<\/em>\u00a0Shuts down the computer<\/p>\n

\/r:<\/em>\u00a0Restarts the computer<\/p>\n

\/m\u00a0<\/em>\\\\computername<\/em><\/a>:\u00a0The target remote computer to shut down<\/p>\n

\/f:<\/em>\u00a0Forces programs to close immediately<\/p>\n

\/t:<\/em>\u00a0Will wait a certain amount of time in seconds before shutting down or restarting<\/p>\n

\/a:<\/em>\u00a0Aborts a shutdown if you used a previous shutdown command with \/t.<\/p>\n

So for remotely shutting down another machine on your network, you would type into the command prompt the following commands:<\/p>\n

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shutdown \/m \\\\computername \/r \/f<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This command will restart the computer named\u00a0computername<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and force all programs that are still running to close.<\/p>\n

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shutdown \u2013m \\\\computername \u2013s \u2013f \u2013c\u00a0\u201cThe computer will restart, please save all work.\u201d\u00a0\u2013t 60<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This command will shutdown\u00a0the computer named\u00a0computername<\/em><\/strong>, force all programs that are running to close, show a message to the user and countdown 60 seconds before it shuts down.<\/p>\n

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Remote Shutdown via Shutdown Dialog<\/h2>\n

If you don\u2019t like all those switches or using the command prompt in general, then you can bring up the shutdown dialog box. You can do that easily by just using the \/i command switch for the shutdown command.<\/p>\n

\"shutdown<\/a><\/p>\n

The remote shutdown dialog will now appear as shown below.<\/p>\n

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Click the\u00a0Add<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0Browse<\/strong>\u00a0button to add computers to the list. You can then run the commands on the entire batch of computers. If you click Add, you\u2019ll need to enter in the network name of the computer in the format\u00a0\\\\computername<\/strong>\u00a0or just\u00a0computername<\/strong>, either works.<\/p>\n

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Of course, you need to know the actual computer name, which I mentioned how you can determine\u00a0above.\u00a0So add as many computers to the list as you like and then set your options. You can shutdown, restart or annotate unexpected shutdown.<\/p>\n

You can also display a warning, if you like, for however many seconds you choose and\u00a0you can type in a comment at the bottom which will be displayed to users. That\u2019s about it!<\/p>\n

Remote Shutdown via Batch File<\/h2>\n

Finally, you can create a batch file so that can do all of this by just running the file. Alternatively, you can schedule the batch file to be run at specific intervals or during specific events using Task Scheduler.<\/p>\n

Just go to Notepad and type in the commands you would have typed into the command prompt:<\/p>\n

shutdown \u2013m\u00a0\\\\computername1<\/a>\u00a0\u2013r
\n<\/em>shutdown \u2013m\u00a0\\\\computername2<\/a>\u00a0\u2013r
\n<\/em>shutdown \u2013m\u00a0\\\\computername3<\/a>\u00a0\u2013r<\/em><\/p>\n

Then simply save the file with a .BAT file extension by choosing\u00a0All Files<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0Save as type\u00a0<\/strong>and add .bat to the end of the file name.<\/p>\n

\"bat<\/a><\/p>\n

This will restart three computers on my home network. You can put as many commands into the batch file as you like, so feel free to experiment!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve written an extensive post on\u00a0how to use batch files in Windows<\/a><\/strong>, so read that if you are not familiar with batch files or task scheduler. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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