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Remote control of Windows PCs simpler through PsExec than Remote Desktop


Serdar Yegulalp, Contributor
04.04.2007
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The Remote Desktop feature is the most common way to control a Windows box remotely, but Remote Desktop isn't the tool for every remote control job. Sometimes you need something simpler than Remote Desktop, one that lets you run a remotely executed command instead of providing you with an entire interactive login session.

Mark Russinovich has a utility that fulfills that exact need—running a remotely executed command instead of providing an entire interactive login session. in fact, he's offered it for some time, and I wish I had discussed it sooner. PsExec (now at version 1.82) is a command-line utility for sending commands to another system in the manner of a telnet client.

The utility requires no installation; it runs anywhere as-is. PsExec 's minimum requirements are a remote host to execute on (either an IP address or a machine name), and a command to execute. You may also need to supply a user


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and password combination that's valid on the remote host. If you have a file with a list of commands to execute, you can provide a reference to that as well.

PsExec's other options allow you to:

Here are three more things to keep in mind when using this tool.

About the author: Serdar Yegulalp is editor of the Windows Insight, (formerly the Windows Power Users Newsletter), a blog site devoted to hints, tips, tricks and news for users and administrators of Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Vista. He has more than 12 years of Windows experience under his belt, and contributes regularly to SearchWinComputing.com and SearchSQLServer.com.

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