Today I tried to to RDC(Remote Desktop Connection) to a remote computer (of course) and I got a nasty error basically saying that I need to restart the machine in order to connect to it :) So I searched the web for a bit, connected to another computer in same LAN, shot the command and waited for about 5 minutes and… voila. I was able to connect.

So what is the command?! shutdown, of course :)

shutdown -m //computername -r -f
-s shutdown
-r restart
-f force close any applications
//computername or ip

Or just run 
shutdown /i
and the UI on the right will appear to make you feel more

For more information see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: How To Use the Remote Shutdown Tool to Shut Down and Restart a Computer in Windows 2000.

P.S. The target machine was Windows Server 2008 so this one still works :)

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