When I'm working with remote desktop it's not always permitted to reboot the computer via the windows inferface. These options are available:
The first time I had to reboot, I tried some dos commands like: reboot or restart, but hat didn't worked. So I used a detour: I opened msconfig and modified something, just clicking on and off again and when I pressed OK the system asked me to reboot the computer. What can I say, I had no time to google...
After I looked for the command to reboot or shutdown a computer. SHUTDOWN was the command and it has some nice parameters:
-r : restart
-s : shutdown
-t : add some time to the shutdown in seconds
-a : cancel the shutdown.
\? will list all the possible parameters.
Here's an example:
Then I wanted to try the cancel command. I ran a shutdown command with 30 seconds delay:
Quickly opened the command prompt and ran this command:
And the shutdown was cancelled.
And another nice option of the shutdown command is the -i. This opens a dailog where you can choose a pc to shutdown, you can even shutdown multiple pc at the same time. If you are in a secured network, be sure to test this. In public places like schools etc. this command is often still enabled. You can shutdown computers remotely. You can imagine the possibilities in a classroom. ;-) Don't abuse it, just use it to point out the security leuks though ;-) Here's an image of the interface:
