How to shutdown multiple windows 10 computers remotely

mountaincabbage · 09 Jul 2018

Hello All,

In my business we have multiple computers (around 10), which we need to leave running after work, but we don't want to run all night. Up to now I have managed to get by teamviewering in every night and closing them down, but this has become inefficient as the number of PCs has increased.

I've tried scheduling shutdown and turning off the "these programs are still running" screen, but this didn't work.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Sean

bro67 · 09 Jul 2018

The bad thing is that if someone has a window open because they are not finished working on something, the work needs to be saved or place the unit into a Hibernate mode.

Berton · 09 Jul 2018

Some years ago I worked in a shop with several computers/servers running and the owner was 400 miles away. He used an APC device where he could log into it and kill the power to the machines, usually specific IP addresses. But the BIOS had to be set according to whether it restarted or stayed shut down, took awhile to get everything set as desired. It worked best if not having passwords set for logging on, may not be appropriate in every situation.

Kari · 09 Jul 2018

bro67 said:

The bad thing is that if someone has a window open because they are not finished working on something, the work needs to be saved or place the unit into a Hibernate mode.

The -f (force) switch with shutdown command forces shut down regardless if there are programs running or unsaved documents open.

This command forces computer shut down immediately:

shutdown -s -t 0 -f

Easiest way to force shutdown of another computer on same network is to use PowerShell:

Stop-Computer -ComputerName COMPUTER_NAME -Force

Kari