Windows 7 remote shutdown

There may be more setup to do, especially for Windows Vista, Windows 7 and further windows versions, to allow remote shutdown:

Part A) On the Windows machine:

1) Add a remote shutdown security policy:

• run secpol.msc

• in the program tree, open Security Settings > Local Policies > User rights Assignment

• Find the entry Force shutdown from a remote system

• Edit the entry, add the windows user account that will be used for shutdown (ex: nouknouk)

2) Add registry keys to disable UAC remote restrictions:

• Run regedit.exe as Administrator

• Find HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/System

• Create a new registry DWORD(32) value named LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy and then assign it the value 1

3) Start remote registry service:

• Open cmd.exeas Administrator

• Execute the two following commands:

  sc config RemoteRegistry start= auto

  sc start RemoteRegistry