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Old 08-13-09, 08:03 AM   #1
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Think about it …Shutting down the PC from your cell phone. Its cool naa.

There isn’t any rocket science involved in it .Follow the simple tricks below and voila….

The following trick was invented by some great students of Computer Science IIT Kanpur.TheFollowing trick makes it very easy for anyone to shutdown their pc’s remotely.

The requirements are simple….One cell phone with GPRS enabled, Microsoft Outlook on the pc to be put to shutdown.

Using this method the user can shutdown, restart, hibernate the computer just by sending an email from their cell phone.

All you need to have is Microsoft outlook which comes with Microsoft word. The Microsoft outlook should be installed on the pc you wish to shutdown.

First you need to create a batch file to perform shutdown etc .you can write them down yourself.

* Open your notepad and type the following

c:\windows\system32\shutdown -s -f -t 00

And save it as shutdown.bat (Executable file)

* Open up Microsoft outlook .make sure that it is already configured for you email id.
* Now we will need to set Microsoft outlook in such a way that outlook checks you email every one minuite.This can be set by going to tools-ŕ options
* Then click the mail setup tab and later send/receive button
* Make sure that you schedule an automatic send/receive...every box checked and set the number of minutes to 1.Now you may close all these dialog boxes
* Now go to tools---rules and alert. Next click on options button on the upper right hand corner and press the import rules button



* Now click on the shutdown.bat which you recently created
* Now the final step
* When you send the message from your phone to your email address with a subject shutdown or smsshutdown%% ......and VIOLA you computer is shutdown….
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Its realy amazing, Thanks u very much....
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Nice info shared. I haven't tried it yet. but will do it later. Keep posting more such useful info. repped
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Will not work for all.
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Will not work for all.
have you tried it? can you give a feedback?
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it's a security risk. anyone can send a mail with shutdown in it
and shutdown your computer.

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Using this method the user can shutdown, restart, hibernate the computer just by sending an email from their cell phone.

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Shutdown might be possible, I would like to know how restart can be done.

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This method will not work for Linux & other OS.
Farce is right don't even try it. Email can be forged easily. Not going to tell how as it is against the forum rules & it is against my ethics to tell someone who I don't know something which can be used for evil purposes work.
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it's a security risk. anyone can send a mail with shutdown in it
and shutdown your computer.

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Shutdown might be possible, I would like to know how restart can be done.

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You can set appropriate rules in outlook and who is asking you to advertise everyone about it.

as for restart

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C:\Documents and Settings\>shutdown /?
Usage: shutdown [-i | -l | -s | -r | -a] [-f] [-m \\computername] [-t xx] [-c "c
omment"] [-d up:xx:yy]

No args Display this message (same as -?)
-i Display GUI interface, must be the first option
-l Log off (cannot be used with -m option)
-s Shutdown the computer
-r Shutdown and restart the computer

-a Abort a system shutdown
-m \\computername Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort
-t xx Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds
-c "comment" Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters)
-f Forces running applications to close without war
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This method will not work for Linux & other OS.
Farce is right don't even try it. Email can be forged easily. Not going to tell how as it is against the forum rules & it is against my ethics to tell someone who I don't know something which can be used for evil purposes work.
Even a simple thing as a kitchen knife can be used for good as well destructive purposes.

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NPU,
Oh, OK, I misunderstood. I thought you could restart a computer
that was already shutdown using this method.

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