Switching Off Your PC Remotely with "Switch Off"

[Rob Williams]

Have you ever left your house with your computer running, only to wish that you were able to shut it down either via a timer or remotely? If you're running a Linux OS, chances are good that you're also running SSH. In that case, it takes little more than a quick login from wherever you are, then you can shut down from there. For Windows, though, I don't think similar functionality exists right out of the box.

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[Kougar]

You can shut down or reboot windows machines remotely through the RDC. It is also possible to configure Windows to shutdown at a specific time, or after the machine finished a task and went idle.