Once in a while it happens to be that we have some do on a PC like: Installing software, running an antivirus. But unfortunately, something comes up and requires leaving immediately. So, leaving the computer open can make you worry of other people using it.
You might wonder how you can set up your system to shut down automatic. This is the reason I write this tutorial, I will explain in details how to shut down your computer remotely.
To get started, you will need:
- An E-mail account ( pop3 like Gmail)
- An Outlook account
- A Cell Phone
- A kwiry account
Step one: you need to create a file names "shutdown.bat" in notepad with the line of "c:\windows\system32\shutdown –s –f –t 00"
The second step is to set up Outlook as pop3 account.
To do so, go to tools, Account settings, new, then select Microsoft Exchange, PO3, IMAP, or HTML
Then next to enter your POP3 E-mail account and password.
Our incoming mail server will "pop.gmail.com" if our email is an email account and our outgoing mail server will be "smtp.gmail.com". Fill out the rest then click on More Settings.
Click on advanced. Incoming server will be setting up at 995 and outgoing server at 587 then ok to close the box. Click next. Then finish.
Now we are going to create our kwiry account. We go to www.kwiry.com
We sign up to an account that will allow us to send text messaging to our email account.
Now we go back to Outlook. We will set up send/receive to be updating every minute.
Then we go tools, Rules and Alerts. Click on new Rule. Then blank Rule, check messages when they arrive. Select Specific subject, then Specific word. Type in the box " your kwiry-shutdown"
Then we select start application, and the application then browse for the application file "shutdown.bat". Then we click next and then finish.
Now to shutdown our PC, we are going to send a text message from our cell phone to "59479" with the word "shutdown".
Here we go! It's working for me.
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