remote reboot

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Scott wrote:

> is there a way to reboot a windows xp computer remotely
> that i normally have the ability to make a remote desktop
> connection to. the connection does establish but there is
> a hung program that is causing the desktop to not respond.

You can do a reboot with the following from a command line:

shutdown -r -f

The -r switch tells it to reboot.
The -f switch tells it to force running applications to close without
warning when shutting down.

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