Friday, September 12, 2008

Restart a remote machine.

Having problems with the remote machine you are using? Don't want to leave home to head to the office for a restart? Simple cmd can take care of it.

C:\Documents and Settings\unplug1.6>shutdown -m \\Hum -r -y

shutdown is the command you're looking for, "-r" is to specify a restart instead of total shutdown. "-m \\Hum" specifies the remote computer you are trying to restart. Below are a few other arguments.

No args Display this message (same as -?)
-i Display GUI interface, must be the first option
-l Log off (cannot be used with -m option)
-s Shutdown the computer
-r Shutdown and restart the computer
-a Abort a system shutdown
-m \\computername Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort
-t xx Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds
-c "comment" Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters)
-f Forces running applications to close without warning
-d [u][p]:xx:yy The reason code for the shutdown


Usage:
shutdown [-i | -l | -s | -r | -a] [-f] [-m \\computername] [-t xx] [-c "comment"] [-d up:xx:yy]

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