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Doing so will bring up the standard ctrl-alt-del window with Change Password, Shutdown, Task Manager, etc. You can also go to the Start menu and pull up Windows Security located just above Log off and Disconnect. Anyway I'm going to keep all these ideas in mind the next time I need to reboot a computer over Remote Desktop. I'm running as non-admin on my Vista machine and I know I've used the shutdown.exe to reboot the computer a number of times, then again maybe this has been fixed in Vista.

I wonder about the shutdown.exe requiring admin privileges. (Which means that I don't use it.)įinally, if your computer isn't using Fast User Switching, you can type the Ctrl+Alt+End hotkey, which is the Remote Desktop version of Ctrl+Alt+Del and consequently takes you to a dialog where you can do various system-type things, among them logging off and shutting down. If you are a limited user with shutdown privileges, the shutdown.exe program will complain. But the shutdown.exe program has a serious flaw: It requires you to have administrator privileges. If you're a command line person, you can run shutdown.exe, but that program supports only shutdown and restart it doesn't do stand-by or hibernate. These next two tricks are documented and will continue to work in future versions of Windows: This will call up the shutdown dialog, where you get the usual shutdown options like "Shut down", "Shut down without installing updates", "Restart", "Stand by", and "Hibernate". One way to do this is to run Task Manager and select your shutdown option from the "Shut Down" menu.Īnother trick is to click on the desktop and type Alt+F4. Note: These tips work on Windows XP, but there is no guarantee that they will work in future versions of Windows. But what if you really want to turn off the computer, hibernate it, or put it on stand-by? When you are connected to a workstation via Remote Desktop, the "Turn Off Computer" option changes to "Disconnect". However, Raymond provides four ways to do this. I usually just open a command prompt and type shutdown -t 0 -r to reboot. I don't how many times I've needed to reboot a machine while accessing it over Remote Desktop.