How to remotely shut down a Windows PC with a cell phone

Remotely shut down a Windows PC with a cell phone

Want to have the power to shut down your Windows PC from most anywhere on the planet? With the hack outlined in this video tutorial, you can. In order to perform this trick, you'll need the following: (1) Microsoft Windows (e.g., XP or Vista), (2) Microsoft Outlook, (3) a POP-3 e-mail account, (4) a kwiry account, and (5) a cell phone that can send text messages. For easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions in this how-to video on getting this simple, but impressive, hack to work on your own Windows computer, take a look!

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BLUDCRIMSON (-4) 1 year ago

Fantastic video. As long as it doesnt hurt my computer.

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sasukeU425 8 months ago

it will lol didnt you hear him when you finish it it will shut down your computer

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phiberhax 3 weeks ago

well, its good in case you forgot to turn off your computer

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THE-MAIN-PLAYER (2) 1 year ago

Very Nice Tutorial. Good video.

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Alex1inferno-The Critic (-27) 1 year ago

Dear Viewers, A am a huge fan of TinkerNut so it was nice to watch another video made by them. I love this video very much, however nothing is perfect. I'm not entirely sure why you would need to do this besides it being entertaining, but I can see some vague reasons why and you need certain applications for this tutorial such as a specific type of e-mail engine. Overall, quite a good video.
Sincerley,
Alex1inferno- The Critic

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freemycatfish (-1) 7 months ago

Well, if you were doing a looong download of say, a torrent file then you might not want to sit around waiting for it to finish in nine hours time. Being able to shut down the computer like this from a long distance away would be good I think?

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Amie (9) 1 year ago

I agree with Alex1
excellent vid
well done
make more tinkernut!@

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gesela 1 year ago

fantastic job! nice and i love it.

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haffenden1 (1) 1 year ago

That's terrific.

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joelschuler (3) 1 year ago

Cool but how do you do this on Windows Mail V6 on vista???

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B13 boys 1 year ago

cool

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Gaz 12 months ago

WOW THAT WAS GREAT

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kaz2121 12 months ago

what about outlook express you cant make it start with an app

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dudestar18 (-2) 7 months ago

he just wants us to sign up for his email

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Spartan117 7 months ago

I like it

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bayi 7 months ago

awesome!i like this video!

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JCor49 (1) 7 months ago

Kewl!

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jgw310 7 months ago

That was totally AWSOME!!!! So doing that works even away from home??

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kodukulakk (1) 6 months ago

kwiry is closed due to financial problems, No new signups. So what now any substitute instead of kwiry?

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razadada 4 months ago

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ammu 4 months ago

i am from INDIA. n i cant access kwiriy site ....so can i know any other web site similar to kwiry site.

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Floorg (1) 3 months ago

I am on Windows vista and the settings are not the same. So i cant find any way to set up the Pop3 account.

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Sac077 (1) 3 months ago

Well i have Vista witch is different and Kwiry was shut down, but still cool video

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Galeliko (1) 3 months ago

it is a long proces!!!!

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mandarin 3 months ago

i can not even play the video .. i will comment later on this topic

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chilis3 (-1) 3 months ago

This can be done without kwiry. Just create a contact in your phone for your outlook email address. When you set up the rule, have it check the body of the email for shutdown and then start the application. This one here would be nice as a little prank, but you would need access to Outlook on the victims computer. Also, you can have your .bat file do things you want it to do, like shutting down and app instead of shutting down the whole computer, or doing a shutodwn and restart shutdown -r instead of -s.

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