This article shows you how to use the remote shutdown command tool in Windows to remotely shut down or restart a local or network computer. This can sometimes be very useful if you have multiple computers at home or on your network that you want to quickly shut down or restart.
How to Easily Shut Down or Restart Windows Using a Remote Desktop Connection
You can even shut down a computer remotely over the internet, but you will first need to create a VPN to the network or to the target computer you want to shut down. I won’t be covering VPNs in this article, but if you want to do that, feel free to Google it.
You can perform a remote shutdown from the command prompt using the shutdown command and its switches, from the remote shutdown dialog, or from a batch file. I'll go through all three methods in this article.
To get this working, you need to go through a few steps first. Otherwise, you will keep getting the Access Denied (5) error message and it will drive you crazy.
