Comments on: Reboot or Shutdown from Remote Desktop Connection

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.

By: Ian Crane

Ian Crane — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:04:43 +0000

Yes, I have since encountered remote desktops where I couldn’t use the task bar trick. I’ve resigned myself to memorizing the shutdown command. I was impressed when doing this on a remote desktop connection to a Vista Business machine because it implemented a one-minute delay, which gave me time to log out gracefully. That was a nice touch.

The batch file approach is nice if you only work with a few known machines. I’m all over the place, so the fastest method for me is to memorize the command prompt text. I admit that I resent having to give up space in my brain for that information. There’s only so much I can retain and the darn thing’s been full for years now.

“There is not enough avaialable free space for brain defragmenter to run effectively…”

By: TheWorld

TheWorld — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:49:09 +0000

The easiest way is to create yourself a good old fashion DOS file called a batch file. Here is how you do it.

Steps
1)Open notepad
2)type in the desired command shown below
3)Use ’save as’ to save the file with a .bat extension. Example: Reboot.bat
(Some versions of notepad will require that you change the ’save as type’ to all files to save it with this extension.
4)Thats it!

Commands:
shutdown -f Shutdown
shutdown -r -f Reboot
shutdown -i -f GUI Change
shutdown -l -f Logout

Good Luck!

By: TheWorld

TheWorld — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:16:19 +0000

Ian, nice trick, but not possible on some versions of Vista or 7.

By: Ian Crane

Ian Crane — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:04:02 +0000

Here’s a simple method: Right-click the task bar and select Task Manager from the popup menu. On the main menu, click Shut Down / Restart or whatever you want.

By: StrAngel

StrAngel — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:15:48 +0000

Hi!

A friend of mine (nickname SurZer) made this Java app for me.
Downloadable here:
http://www.banankassen.com/rdcshutdown.jar

You need to have the Java Runtime Environment installed in order to make the app work on a XP machine. Search for “java runtime environment” on Google and you will find some links from where you can download JRE. After that, the previous mentioned app that my friend made ill work.

Njoy :)

By: OzzieH

OzzieH — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:58:22 +0000

I don’t recall where I recently read this, but you can try Ctrl+Shift+Esc to get the Task Manager on the remote machine. It worked for me! Another way is to use the remote “Run” box, from the Start menu, and type ‘taskmgr.exe’ (without quotes, of course). For some reason, I’ve found it works more reliably with the ‘.exe’ on the end, but, theoretically, it should work without it.