HowTo – Windows shutdown GUI and remote shutdown capabilities
From a windows command prompt you can get a shutdown gui. This is cool because you can use it to execute remote shutdowns with ease and not have to remember all the flags.
start->run-> cmd
c:\shutdown.exe -i
The gui should be launched. I find it handy when a server is supposed to reboot and gets “stuck”. Some windows servers just don’t shutdown cleanly and hang on the process. If you execute another remote shutdown command you can force the server out of the endless shutdown, and save yourself from a drive into the server room.
