Re: Remotly turning PCs off


"Alan Walker" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In news:T9OdnZ5zb5kPqyjeRVnysQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> recursor <recursor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed (subject to snippage)>
>> "Aosmosis" <spam@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> My brothers insist on leaving their PCs on overnight which I feel is
>>> a waste. Is there a program that I could place in the shared folder on their
>>> computers that when I double click would shut the computers down,
>>> also if any warning msgs came up, I could see them eg "work in MS
>>> word is not saved, do u want to save it" etc etc
>>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/badcl You can do it (and just about anything
>> else) with PCAnywhere, but it has to be running on all the computers
>> you wish to control. Ie. your bro's have to agree to it.
>
> PCAnywhere is a commercial product, there are plenty of decent open source or
> freeware alternatives. Google is your friend.
Really, please do post a link to ones that are actually free (as opposed to
those offering a free trial but which you WILL pay for later).


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