SOLVED: How to Shutdown or Restart a Windows 8 PC from a Remote Desktop (RDP) Session

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In Windows 7 and Vista you could do this by clicking START, WINDOWS SECURITY and then RESTART. Apparently WINDOWS SECURITY link has been removed from Win8 sooo I can think of just two ways to easily reboot a Win8 machine from an RDP session:

on the tile page type RUN (select APPS on the top right) and click RUN, then enter:
shutdown -r -f Reboot
shutdown -f Shutdown
Press ALT+F4 (i.e. close) and then select RESTART or SHUTDOWN

I hope this helps.

Categories: Windows 11 & Windows 10

Tags: rdpremote desktopRestart Windows 8win8

3 Comments

Hemant Kumar Arya · March 30, 2016 at 1:51 am

Awesome post. Now I can Remotely shutdown pc with my android phone in just one click. This is realoy looks like a professional.
Thank you

Allan · October 13, 2012 at 8:23 pm

Thanks..what a nightmare windows 8 is. How does MSFT release an os with no power controls?

Ian Matthews · October 14, 2012 at 9:30 am

I am amazed that such a common task is not exposed more. TOO MANY CLICKS!!!

I am hopeful that the START BUTTON will make its return at SP1 when corporations still haven’t purchased AND installed any notable volume of Win8.

Published by Ian Matthews on August 23, 2012August 23, 2012

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Allan · October 13, 2012 at 8:23 pm

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Published by Ian Matthews on August 23, 2012August 23, 2012

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