How To Remote Shutdown A Computer On Your Network

Turning off a computer remotely is very much useful and helpful, especially when you have two or more computers at your home and you like to manage and control them remotely. Shutting down a remote computer also lets you impress your friends and colleagues with your computer skills or you can also try it as a prank on your friends and colleagues. Well, shutting down a computer remotely is not a very difficult task to do and also does not requires you to be a computer nerd or expert. But first you must have to learn the appropriate method to remote shutdown a computer or else you will be getting an error constantly which can drive you crazy.

So, today I have created this tutorial in which I will be showing you that how you can easily and quickly remote shutdown a computer which is on your network connection. Remember that this method only works with Windows operating system. So, without wasting much of your valuable time, let’s get started with our tutorial.

Steps To Remote Shutdown A Computer 

So, if you want to remotely shutdown a computer on your network then follow the below given steps.

• First of all, you have to open up the Command Prompt. To do so, click on Start button and then type CMD in the search box and hit Enter key on your keyboard.
• Now, in the Command Prompt window, you have to type net view and then hit Enterkey.
• Then, you will see a list of the computers which are connected on your network connection. Simply choose any one of the computer which you want to remote shutdown and also remember its complete name.
• After that, just type shutdown -m \\nameofpc (For example, shutdown -m \\Home-PC) and then hit Enter key. 
• That’s it! You are done! Now, your targeted computer will be shutdown.

Conclusion

So, this was all about how to remote shutdown a computer on your network. I hope that now you will be able to remotely shutdown a computer on your network connection without any sort of problems. If you have any type of queries regarding this tutorial then do let us know, we will try our best to resolve them. While in the meantime, if you’d like this tutorial then don’t forget to share this with your friends and social circles too.

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