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| Newer page: | version 14 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:10:09 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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See [SysInternal's PsTools|http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml] for the [PsShutdown|http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psshutdown.shtml] utility, that can use RPC to shut down a computer locally or remotely.
Or for the same thing look at the apropriate ResourceKit for the OS.
There are also other programs that can use RPC to shut down your computer remotely. Just don't patch your machine, and sooner or later your machine will shut down after 60 seconds warning.
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+!Print drivers cause crashing
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+Sometimes you'll find that, when starting Word or Excel, you'll jump to 100% CPU usage, half the application, half spoolsv. You can get into the app using 'net stop spooler', but you can't do much and printing is out of the question.
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+An answer from [Mark Henri|http://www.markhenri.com/], Excel guru: ''If you try installing a different print driver and print to screen and it works, then it's the print driver. You'll need to contact the printer manufacturer and see if they have an updated one. If it's across a network, there could be problems with that too that get fairly involved to troubleshoot.''
