shutdown your computer from a distance

shutdown your computer from a distance

There's a small utility called "SHUTCMD.EXE" included in the Windows NT Resource Kit that you can use to shutdown or restart a local or remote computer.

For example, you can shutdown the local computer by running:


to shutdown a computer on your network. test being the name of the computer you want to shutdown:


to shutdown a remote computer connected to the Internet ("192.168.0.1" being the IP address of the computer you want to shutdown):