January 18, 2008
Wanna Shut Down Your Computer With A Text Message?
Tim Matheson wrote an article on how to remotely shutdown your computer. You can download the files from this page or go to the article if this link doesn’t work. You are basically creating a text file and saving it as “remote_shutdown.bat” and put it somewhere on your hard drive with the following inside
shutdown -f -s -c “SMS Remote Shutdown in progress…”
Basically you setup a rule in outlook to look for say a keyword in the subject line of an email. Then you select run application as the action for when that keyword is found. Then all you have to do is write a simple dos batch file and use the shutdown command with the -f parameter to ensure the shutdown is not aborted by any running applications. After that the rest is simple you simply send a sms text message from your cell phone or other source to your email address. You must have automatic send and receive tunned on for this to work.
Thank you Tim for creating this tutorial because many people are unaware that you can do that using outlook.
