Remotely Restart Computer in Safe Mode Using Command Prompt

About: Did you know that you can restart a computer away from you within a network using a command prompt. Remotely Restart Computer in Safe Mode is very useful if you are troubleshooting or installing programs on a number of computers.

If you require to restart a computer on another computer on a network without physically going on it, you can simply do a remote restart using a command prompt. This example is to restart computer remotely on SafeMode.

1. Go to Start > Run, type CMD to show the Command Prompt window

2. Enter this:  shutdown -r -f -m \\computername -t 30

Wherein:
computername = the computer name of the target machine
30 = the number of seconds before it will restart.

2 comments
  1. janvy09 September 7th, 2009 11:47 am :

    Thanks, this works. Didnt know it was that easy.

  2. Nu uh November 3rd, 2010 11:47 pm :

    This will only work to restart a machine, not restart in safe mode.

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