Monday, February 22, 2016

Windows Command-Line Reboot

These were directions I'd saved from when I work remotely at Pearson Education. Many times when I was working in the office, folks was call or text and ask me to reboot their computer. As I recall, we didn't have access via the GUI to reboot, only logoff.

You can reboot your remote computer anytime without assistance via the command line.

Open a command window.


Type the following command:

shutdown /t 0 /r /f

What that's telling the operating system to do is

shutdown: Shut down the computer
/t 0: in 0 second (That's a forward slash followed by a t followed by a space followed by the number zero.)
/r: then reboot it
/f: force all of the currently running applications to exit.

shutdown /t 0 /r /f

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