I picked up a nice little tip the other day (via, I think, Life Hacker). It’s an easy way to shut down an XP machine remotely. I know, it’s nothing new. We’ve been doing it via the command line for years. But, can you remember the command line syntax? Nor me. I have to refer to the help every single bloody time. Well, fret no more. Shutdown.exe has a GUI!

Go to the run command and type

shutdown.exe -i

You get a nice little interface to play with. I used this successfully on Wednesday to reboot a non-responsive machine in the yard that was far too far away to walk to in the rain. Worked a treat I tell ya. It recognised the Active Directory machine reference and away it went. Sweeet!