Comments on: Reboot or Shutdown from Remote Desktop Connection

By: navles

navles — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:12:57 +0000

Windows 7 – Remote Desktop Shutdown – ‘shutdown /s’ only works…

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:11:31 +0000

Julio:

Thanks for putting this together. I thought maybe the readers of this page would benefit from a remote desktop software comparison chart that I was involved in putting together, since they likely use remote desktop software:

http://www.remotedesktopmac.com/remote-desktop-comparison-chart

If you think if would be beneficial, please add it as a reference on this page. The chart made the first page of digg and has been tweeted like crazy, so people are finding it useful.

Thanks!

- Amy

By: Doc Holiay

Doc Holiay — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:40:55 +0000

Alt +F4 works on Win7 to shutdowm Vista Home…thanks

By: Enrique Alvarez

Enrique Alvarez — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:39:34 +0000

To remotely shutdown or restart a computer, as long as it’s in a domain:

shutdown -m \\computername
to restart:
shutdown -m \\computername -r -t #

this is usefull when the user does not have the proper priviledges

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:06:46 +0000

Yep, Alt+F4 works for on Windows 7 x64

Thanks

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:53:35 +0000

Alt+F4 – worked on xp for me.

By: Ian Crane

Ian Crane — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:33:54 +0000

I verified that Anon’s Alt+F4 works on the environments I use. Excellent, thank you!

By: Paras

Paras — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:04:11 +0000

Anon has easiest solution – it does work on my Win XP machine.

The only restriction is I have to restore the window to be able to Alt+F4. It doesn’t work in full-screen mode.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:39:27 +0000

This isn’t that difficult. Press Alt+F4 when you’re focused on the desktop. Select restart. Done.

By: remote desktop software

remote desktop software — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:50:17 +0000

I have never been faced with a problem when trying to shutdown from a remote desktop. I have been using Windows 7 as well. Hopefully I am never faced with this issue, because not being able to control my other desktop remotely would be very annoying.