Remotely Shutdown a Computer
Using the Shutdown command you can shutdown a machine on your domain or another machine you have admin rights to by using the following command at a command prompt:
shutdown /m \machinename /s /t:30 “This machine will log out in 30 seconds” /y
For more switches type “shutdown /?” which will give you information on restarting the machine and many other options.
Using the shutdown graphical interface: using shutdown /i
Windows XP | Wayne | 
February 25, 2009 12:00 pm