How do i put computer to sleep via network?

hi guys,

currently this is my setup:-

1 ROUTER, connected to two computers with windows 7. One of these is a media centre and the other is an office pc. The media centre is sharing several of it's folders with the office pc, allowing me to transfer any files to the media pc.

Now i have managed to setup the office pc to wake up (WOL) the media centre and this works perfectly. But is there a utility that can send a command to the media pc to go back to sleep, once i've finished copying files to it?

I would prefer to have ONE utility that can do both SUSPEND & WAKEUP if possible.

Thanks again!

There is one similar thread about How to shut down pc remotely

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@ tanyac - I'm using XBMC as a shell, so therefore explorer does not start, hence i don't think power options will work.

@ codekiddy - thanks for that link, but I want to manually be able to press a button (like a remote-control). Rather than enabling a whole load options, is there no simple utility that can do this? I mean my android phone has a program called "Unified Remote" and that can send WOL, Hibernate and Shutdown commands, surely there must be a windows software that does the same thing?

Also guys i send a suspend command, so that i can wake up the pc if need be.

Thanks very much again

well you can use teamviewer if you want more delux interface
it supports VPN, remote control, file transfer ...
and most important it's free and good!

surely there must be a windows software that does the same thing?

remote desktop connection is the name of windows tool

Thanks very much codekiddy...i think teamviewer should be perfect, so long as it doesn't drain the connection or slow it down.

Thanks...much appreciate it!

Well you don't have to have teamviewer connected to remote machine all the time.
connect when want to do something like put comp to sleep
thus, saving your bandwidth :)

well thats brilliant...thanks very much!