How to restart or shutdown a remote machine

If you can ping the remote machine and have administrative rights on that machine, you can use the windows remote shutdown utility to restart or shutdown a remote computer .

1. Go to Start - Run and type shutdown -i (A remote Shutdown Dialog Box will appear)

2. Click on Add and type either the  IP address or DNS of the remote machine and Click OK

3. On “What do you want these computers to do:” Select the appropriate action that you want to perform on the remote machine.

4.In the Display warning for: section Enter the number of seconds you want the warning to be displayed on the remote machine.

Now from the Shutdown Event Tracker: section Select the suitable reason for shutdown or restart of the computer.

If you select the Other  option, Enter the reason for shutdown or restart in the Comment section and Click on OK to shutdown or restart the remote machine.

That’s it.

Alternatively  you can do this from the command prompt also.

Go to command prompt (start –run - Type cmd and press enter)

On the command prompt type

Shutdown –r –m \\10.1.1.15  or \\computer name

Replace 10.1.1.15 with the IP address or computer name of the remote machine. -r option is for restart, no need to use -r if you want to just shut down the machine.