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Asked: 2026-06-13T07:50:12+00:00

I’m trying to shutdown a windows computer in my network, from a windows service

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I’m trying to shutdown a windows computer in my network, from a windows service running on another windows computer.

In the console, I can do that:

net use \\ComputerName Password /u:User
shutdown /s /t 0 /m \\ComputerName

But when I try to do it from my windows service:

Process.Start("net", "use \\ComputerName Password /u:User");
Process.Start("shutdown", "/s /t 0 /m \\ComputerName");

Nothing happens.

I know there is a permissions problem because my service is running on LocalSystem account, but I tried to change it to my local user and still not working.

Any help will be appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    For what it is worth, you can do this progmatically using the documented WMI Win32_OperatingSystem/Win32Shutdown method.

    The linked article also as has links to examples on how to use WMI from C++

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