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I have Windows 7 installed on one of my PC's. It's up and running. However I don't have physical access to it. I have another PC connected to it through the LAN. I can see shared folders, ping, etc.. Is there any way I can reboot the first Windows 7 remotely from LAN, having administrative credentials?
Pablo
Posted 2011-10-08T20:39:59.000
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You can use PsShutdown, from Microsoft's Sysinternals group, or you can remote-desktop in and reboot it in the usual fashion, assuming that you have remote desktop set up.
dsolimano
Posted 2011-10-08T20:39:59.000
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From command prompt on the PC you can access:
shutdown /r /m \\yourComputer /t 5
(change "yourComputer" to the name of your Windows 7 machine that you're trying to restart)
This will tell it to send a restart to that computer, starting in 5 seconds.
Chris_K
Posted 2011-10-08T20:39:59.000
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this didn't work for some reason – Pablo – 2011-10-08T21:04:21.997
Well that's no good. Was there an error to share? – Chris_K – 2011-10-08T21:19:39.290
no error, just silently completed command but doesn't restart – Pablo – 2011-10-08T21:20:58.850
No I don't have anything special install on that PC. It is suddenly needed to reboot and I am not prepared... – Pablo – 2011-10-08T20:47:15.900
PsShutdown worked! – Pablo – 2011-10-08T21:04:34.007