-=PCTechTalk=- Re: remote shutdown
- From: ~OoO~ <SirTroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:39:20 -0400
There's also programs you can buy that will restrict the online time
according to the local time. So, you can set it to automatically block
access after a certain time. I think, actually, ZoneAlarm (free version)
can do this also. And, you can password protect it so they can't bypass it.
---Troth
At 9/26/2003 04:03 AM, jeff wrote:
>the reason i want to do it is we has three kids, 14 y/o daughter that uses
>nsm to chat to her friends and 2 sons 13 and 10 that play games.
>so we have to tell them 1 hour them swop over, at the end of the hour
>world war 3 breaks out, the person thats on the pc keeps saying just let
>me Finnish this or just a minute.
>i did put a program on that would shut down or restart the pc after a set
>time but they would just pause it when we were not looking,
>if i can find a way to shut it down from my pc i can tell them that i have
>put a program on their pc that will shut down after a set time or if they
>argue (sneaky).
>and at night i get up to go to bed only to find they have left it on and i
>have to stand there and shut it down, sometimes this can take a few
>minutes depending on what they have running.
>
>Jeff
>
>On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:58:57 -0400, cris wrote:
> >wow - cool question!!
> >I know I can knock my son off line from down here - but doubted -
> >never thought
> >about shutting it down.
> >Of course, I wouldn't have a reason to do that - but...
> >He just put xp on his system - so we have 2 xp systems. I don't know
> >what is set
> >up for sharing - I don't think much is.
> >CrisS
>
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