Method To Shut Down Remote Computers

Shutting Down Others Computers

THIS GUIDE TEACHES YOU HOW TO SHUT DOWN YOUR OWN COMPUTER, BUT WITH A LITTLE SUBSTITUTION, YOU CAN SHUT DOWN OTHERS. MAKE SURE TO READ THE FIRST SENTENCE OF STEP 4 SO YOUR COMPUTER DOESN'T GET SHUT DOWN.

I love doing this at school and such..we sometimes go back and forth with the high schoolers (who are on the same network) just shutting down each other's computers .1. Click on Start. Go to My Computer and right click on it. A window should come up with a bunch of choices. We'll choose the one at the bottom, labeled 'Properties'

You should see 7 tabs at the top. One of them, 'Computer Name'. Get the name of your computer.



 

Now that you know the name, we'll go onto step 2.

2. Click on Start. Go to Run. Type in CMD. Press enter. Now, that black window should pop up. In it, type in "Shutdown /i" without the quotes. A window will pop up.



3. Click Add, and type in the name of your computer that you found earlier (w/o the period that was at the end). Click OK on that window that popped up and edit the seconds to 60. Make sure Warning is checked. Keep the option the same. Write a small comment. Click OK.

4. Go back to the Command Prompt (CMD) and type in Shutdown /a. That will stop it on your computer (Also a nice trick if one of your buds tries it on you and leaves up the warning ). If you know the name of your buddies computer in the next door computer lab, type that in and don't put the warning, so it looks like it's randomly shutting down . Or you can do 10 seconds and a comment like "YOU HAVE BEEN HACKED. The Computer Will Explode When The Timer Reaches 0." If it doesn't work, you'll get a message on the Command Prompt saying "The Network Path Was Not Found.". That means you either typed in the computer's name wrong or they aren't on the same network. Most schools have all their computers on the same network though, so you can do it there.

5. Have fun!

Extra Information

• Finding Computers in Network To find all the computers in your network, go to command prompt (Start --> Run --> cmd --> Enter) and type in "net view" w/o the quotation marks.


• Getting Computer's Names To get a computer's name, go to run and type in ddeshare.exe --> Click on File --> Select Computer
  There are all the computers on the network. --Warbeak1245


• Sending Messages To Others Once you have the computer name, you can open up command prompt (start --> run --> cmd) or if that is disabled, command (start --> run --> command.com) and then in command prompt, type "net send [computer name] [message]"