Desktop Central

Shutdown / Restart Tool

The free Shutdown/Restart tool can be used to either shutdown or restart a computer from remote. You can shutdown/restart multiple computers simultaneously. To shutdown/restart computers remotely, follow the steps below:

1. Click the Shutdown/Restart tool from the Launcher to invoke the tool.
2. Specify the Domain name, user name and password to shutdown or restart a computer. Please note that the user name and password specified here should have the necessary privileges to do this operation in all the computers.
3. You can either specify the computer names manually as comma separated or use the Browseicon to select the computers to shutdown/restart. When you browse to select the computers, specify the following in the pop-up dialog.
   1. Specify the name of the Domain Controller and click Get Computers. It will list all the computers of that domain.
   2. Select the Computers that you wish to shutdown/restart and click OK
4. The selected computers will get added to the Computers field.
5. Click Shutdown or Restart to shutdown or restart the selected computers respectively.