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I Have Been Trying To Remotely Shut Down My Desktop Computer (Windows XP) With My Laptop (Windows Vista) Using The MS-DOS Command

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shutdown /s /m \\WOLF

I've had a bit of experiance with the remote shutdown feature in xp:

Firstly make sure that the messenger service is switched on in the services section of admistritive tools, then goto start > run > cmd > "shutdown -i" then it should bring up a box saying "remote shutdown" then click add then the name of the computer on your network then click ok, at the bottom put a comment in i.e shutdown for maintainence, then click ok, if its worked there should be a box on the screen saying something like "your computer is in the middle of shutting down for maintainence"

what i'll do is i'll take some screenshots so that it explains better later on.

I've had a bit of experiance with the remote shutdown feature in xp:

Firstly make sure that the messenger service is switched on in the services section of admistritive tools, then goto start > run > cmd > "shutdown -i" then it should bring up a box saying "remote shutdown" then click add then the name of the computer on your network then click ok, at the bottom put a comment in i.e shutdown for maintainence, then click ok, if its worked there should be a box on the screen saying something like "your computer is in the middle of shutting down for maintainence"

what i'll do is i'll take some screenshots so that it explains better later on.

oh, thanks, but that still gives me an error, ive tried it. but  i've already figured it out another way. i made two batch files on my PC and just have to make a desktop connection and activate them.

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shutdown /s /t 00

For an immediate shutdown, and

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shutdown /r /t 00

For a restart.


(P.S. I know my way around DOS