Monday, June 9, 2008

How To Reboot From A Remote Desktop

When you are connected to a remote Windows machine using Remote Desktop, you need to restart that computer. Maybe you installed some new software, or maybe something whacky is happening and you need a reboot to 'start fresh'.

Unfortunately, you can't restart the remote machine using the Start menu. That option is not there.

You can restart the remote machine from the command prompt.
From the command-line ("cmd"), just do one of the following.

- "shutdown" to shutdown
- "shutdown -r" to reboot
- "shutdown -i" to get a GUI
- "shutdown -l" to logoff