Thanks again Allen2. I appreciate your suggestions. I mentioned in my first post that since I am the only user, I do not use usernames or passwords, so your suggestion will not work. I read the MS article, and although I understand what it says, I don't understand why it has to be this way. The administrator account only works in safe mode, while if there is only one user with an account with admin privileges, that really isn't an admin account. So when is an administrator really an administrator? I suppose I could just create a username and password for my account on each computer, but it seems to be, on the face of things, creating extra steps that are not really needed - at least in my mind. Your unsecure solution looks interesting, but quite complicated - I think I will avoid it! I do have workarounds as I mentioned in my previous post. In fact they work quite well without having to jump through Microsoft's hoops. I still find it totally bizarre that net view can show me the shares on my remote computer, but shutdown or psshutdown cannot access the remote. You have tried really hard to help me, but I think Microsoft's restrictions make it impossible to do what should be a very simple task. If I can wake up my remote computer with a simple command, without any complaints from Microsoft, why should it be so incredibly difficult to shut down the same computer with an equally simple command?