What version of Windows 7 are you using? Are you using a Windows 7 machine to remote into another Windows 7 machine? When you used Ctrl-Alt-End, did you look at the lower right hand corner of the screen, where the red shutdown button is located? Click on the arrow, then select shutdown, restart, etc.
It's not a menu, it is a red button on the bottom right hand side of the window that appears when you press CTRL + ALT + END.....
I have windows 7 and a network . I am running cmd in admin mode.
"shutdown -i" gets me a screen, I try to find computer on the network and get " the active Directory Domain Services is currently unavailable"
Any ideas how to fix this
Ok - now, what kind of network do you have? What operating system does your server run?
i do not run a server, and it a standard home network
AFAIK, the shutdown command requires active directory. For workgroup computers, I suggest using PsTools. Grab them from Microsoft, then write a batch file to shutdown a computer. That's what I do, and it works great. You use the psshutdown.exe file to remotely shut down any computer on your workgroup, like this:
There are tutorials on the 'net on how to use psshutdown. You can also open a cmd prompt, navigate to the PsTools directory, and type psshutdown ? for a complete list of commands.Code:psshutdown -k -f -t 00 \\nameofpc
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