Comments on: How to use the remote shutdown command in Windows

By: Ismael

Ismael — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:40:25 +0000

Hi Sandeep
make sure that you have admin rights on the network if not it is not going to work

By: Sandeep

Sandeep — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:11:54 +0000

Hi, when I type the command to shut down the other pc on my network it shows “Access is denied.”

By: Ismael

Ismael — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:25:59 +0000

Hi bhesler

ok This is the command that I have used on our network:

shutdown -m \\computername -s -t 3600

the computer should shutdown after 1 hour. You can also move the -s and place it before -m, it will still work, so you will have :

shutdown -s -m \\computername -t 3600

You also need admin rights in order for the command to work. I used this command on April fool day on our network, haha you had to see everyone going crazy. Wost of it, I left the building leaving a note that I went to look for help. when I came back 45min later, everyone was saving gigabits of Data on DVDs, hahaha!!! This was my april fool command, the -c means “comment” :

shutdown -m \\computername -a -t 3600 -c “confickerworm.exe has been detected on your network and took over the admin account. Network drives will be formatted. Total loss of data will be inevitable. System shutdown in 1 hour”

By: bhesler

bhesler — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:41:34 +0000

even after putting the space in there it still pulls up the help command

By: Ismael

Ismael — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:45:03 +0000

Hi bhesler, you need to have a space between the -m and \\ .
Here is an example: shutdown -m \\computername

Let me know how it goes.

By: bhesler

bhesler — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:08:59 +0000

i run shutdown -i, then I pick the computer I want to shut down and it takes about 10 seconds and I get a responce in the command prompt that says the network path was not found?

By: bhesler

bhesler — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:59:58 +0000

when i run shutdown -m\\computername i get the help screen what am i doing wrong?

By: harry

harry — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:19:34 +0000

shutdown pc inter network
sample : pc a 172.16.202.10
pc b 172.16.200.20
pc c 172.16.0.7
How ro shutdown pc b and c from a…?
please tellme…
thanks

By: koman90

koman90 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:45:07 +0000

This works best if you’re in a domain NOT A WORKGROUP! If your ding this in a workgroup ,ensure your usename and password are spelled the same on both computers.

By: abdul saleem

abdul saleem — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:30:11 +0000

When I do this it says “Access is denied.” How do I get around this?

By: hrum

hrum — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:17:43 +0000

Hm…I’m using a special program for remote shutdown a group of computers. Network Shutdown Tool – very simple to use.

http://abbyte.com

By: Manohar Rao

Manohar Rao — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:31:29 +0000

This is very useful and easy to access through GUI mode

Thanks

By: dolphin guest house

dolphin guest house — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:48:24 +0000

thank you very much, everything work great….was able to remotely shutdown Windows.

By: Pankaj

Pankaj — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:11:45 +0000

Hi.
I tried your command but it is working on local machine and not on remote machine successfully.
I have two computers on network and both have same workgroup name and user name with administrative previlages. still i got meesage that access is denied for command
“shutdown -m \\computername -r -f”
what should i do to avoid this

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:44:18 +0000

When I do this it says “Access is denied.” How do I get around this?? I am on a wireless network and I do just fine up until that point. There is a firewall on the computer I’m trying to do it to so how could I get around that?