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How about Ctrl+Alt+End?

Or, when you're connected to the remote machine, from the command-line ("cmd"), just do:

- "shutdown" to shutdown
- "shutdown -r" to reboot
- "shutdown -i" to get a GUI
- "shutdown -l" to logoff

Actually, to run shutdown from RD, you have to use the -f (force) switch to actually get the machine to shutdown or reboot.

Something like....

shutdown -r -f

Or how about using the "Windows Security" item on the start menu?

Hmm, ok, I guess you can just do a shutdown -r.

I know I tried once before and it said I had to use the force option.

I always thought you could use the Windows Security option to bring up the Ctrl-Alt-Delete menu and select shutdown from there.

Control-Alt-Delete.
In the task manager you can use the "Shut down" menu to either reboot or powerdown.

if you don't like the Windows Security option, how about iisreset /reboot?

thank you very much. I found this post via google. Was very after remotly flashing my dvd firmware!

I don't know what your all fussing about, the suggestion from Jakeypoo works perfectly. Just press Ctrl+Alt+End and it does the same as pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del on a normal system.

Ctrl + Alt + End worked! I'm saved!

ctrl-alt-end works great...but It's nice to know the alternatives. I was recently remote desktop'd into another remote desktop and ctrl-alt-end would bring up the first remote desktop windows security screen. shutdown -r was the obvious answer and i didn't think of it till reading here. thanks!

on some systems (using RD) I have the option to shutdown from the windows Start button. does anyone know why this is not consistent?

I was once able to reboot my XP file-share machine from the start menu, but have noticed that I lost that functionality. I presume this was in one of the Microsoft updates...

I would suggest using PSTools. It is freeware that can be found all over the net. You can remotely shutdown/restart machines, see how long a machine has been up and what hardware it has, list installed software, list running processes and kill them, and my favorite has been using a psexec \\hostname cmd , which get you into dos command line on the remote pc.

On WinXP, the "taskkill" command has been helpful when I've needed to shutdown an RD that's been 2 or 3 hops away from me (ie daisy-chained RD sessions) or a misbehaving RD session:

From a CMD window (or create a .bat file with the following in it) type the following, then wait a couple of minutes for the machine to go down and come back up again.

taskkill /f /im lsass.exe

how to reboot a RD when its hang.

Sweet! My machine at work was showing nothing but a black screen over RD ... Ctrl + Alt + End popped the task mgr, which forced a repaint or whatever, and I was back in business, skipping the 30 minute drive to and from the office to reboot!

This may be a stupid question, hopefully it is an easy answer. But i connect from a work PC to my home PC where remote desktop is setup. If i need to reboot the home PC for any reason, i used "windows security tab" worked fine and my home PC physically shutdown. When the PC restarts i cannot remote desktop connect onto it again because it is at the log in screen, and i don't think it has loaded the files needed to host a remote connection. I cannot remote connect untill i physically log in on that PC.

Briggsy, I just called my girl friend to tel to log in because I had to reboot the machine and SP2 of XP does not load the netwoork interface until the user as logged in

does anyone know the work arround ? Im running XP MCE...

click start click run type "control userpasswords2" from here you can select a user to auto log into the box on boot up.

Found this via google as well.
shutdown -r
worked great!  Thanks for the great info.

For some reason, one of my machines running Windows XP seemed to die while I was away at a meeting. I...

Another googler :-)!

shutdown -i -l -r did the trick for me.  A very useful post.

Anyone who knows how to force win 2003 server to load network drivers after rebooting?
Preferrably without having to make an automated user login?

It takes a lot of work to create the blog posts and code samples that I put in my blog, and I was curious...

shutdown -r works just fine without the -f switch

but I always use shutdown -r -t 0 because I don't like waiting for the 30 second countdown

another potentially useful command is CTRL+ALT+END... this will launch the Task Manager

Pressing Ctrl+Alt+End will not work when your TS session is deeper than one level. In such cases, invoke the On Screen Keyboard (Start > Run > osk) on the nearest TS session and click "Ctrl+Alt+End" keys using you mouse. It worked.

Does anyone know why a remote PC running Windows XP sp2 will reboot (or maybe it just logs itself off) after every session? even though I do a start, run, disconnect? every time I do that and try to access the PC again I have to log back into my AD account.

Simple alt - f4 after closing all active windows

You can connect to the console session on the server and then you will get the Start->Shutdown item instead of the disconnect.

use this in the command line:

mstsc /v:[your server] /console

this will save you tons of scripting.

Yup...

Even connecting through Cisco VPN to my work network, RDP'ed into my desktop I can reboot using the "CTL-ALT-END" keys as stated by the tech above... easy sleazy way to reboot that sucker!

Corey

Another googler here! This page has saved me a 1.5hour round trip to the office. Thanks!

Daan

Ctrl+Alt+End works, BUT:

Why not just R-click on the TaskBar and select Task Manager?

This should probably also work for multiple levels of RD...

Ctrl-Alt-Delete will reboot the machine that you're sitting in front of.  Not what I wanted.

Ctrl-Alt-End works to reboot a machine that you are connected to remotely.  Thanks guys!

Hey guys, I had a server that I had rebooted but after logging in, it was hung on a blue background, no icons, no taskbar and shutdown, windowskey + r, ctrl alt end all would not work, but I was able to rdp to another dc in the same lan and taskkill to stop lsass which rebooted the server, thanks!

I want to shutdown my PC.

I use my home PC to check my e-mails but when I'm going home I want to shut it down. The problem is that the pc restarts don't know why...

I tried "shutdown", "shutdown f", "Ctr + Alt + End", "Start -> Windows Security" and nothing...

Always it restart.

I'm using Windows XP MCE Sp2.

Any idea?

Thanks

On the remote machine click Start -> Settings -> Windows Security

I think if you do the Windows update for Remote Desktop it will add the shutdown option.

Does anyone how to force restart on a 2003 server that does not respond to shutdown -f -r -m\\ servername or any other attempt to restart remotely? Or is hard switching the power all that´s left?

Thanks

Yea, Ctrl-Alt-End does it for the remote machine.

I found it incredibly funny that the first few options involve mini-scripts and command line options. Then, out of nowhere, we get "Or how about using the "Windows Security" item on the start menu?"

Classic.

shutdown -r worked perfectly, but I need to wait for 30 sec, which is negligible.

use -t 00 in the command line...

To access a computer after a  restart, Windows service "Terminal Services" must be set to automatic startup.

This solves the issue neatly :)

Another Googler saved a 2 hr round trip to the office on the weekend.

Thanks

Google and Calvin Hsia saved me too!

can add much more except Thanks.

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Thanks for the great ideas!  On a similar note, is there a way to get an XP machine to reboot at a set time (ie, daily in the middle of the night?)

Scott W - I used to do this. I used to get my machine to shutdown each night at 1am. You can create a bat file that has shutdown commands in it and then set up a scheduled task to hit that bat file at whatever time/date you want.