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This tutorial will teach you how to shutdown, logoff, and lock you pc from a text message from your phone.

First: Download Thunderbird, then just configure a gmail account with Thunderbird. (Not gonna go in to detail, their are millions of tuts on the web ) - You must login or register to view this content.

Second: Now you need to download and install this Thunderbird addon: You must login or register to view this content.. To install it you need to open Thunderbird the go to Tools -> addons -> then click install, then browse to location where you downloaded the addon.

Third: Now you need to configure your inbox. Right click inbox in Thunderbird, and go to new folder. Then name the folder the action you are wanting to do, such as: shutdown, logoff, or lock.

Fourth: Now click Tools -> Message Filters. This is where you are going to specify what text needs to be in the email to shutdown your pc. Click new,
now you need to configure the top box to search the body for a keyword then in the second box you need to make it move the message to the folder you created earlier...
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Now if you are making more that just shutdown you just need to make more filters...

Fifth: Now we need to make a batch file for the addon to run if the filter moves the email to the right folder. So below are three batch files. Make a new folder C:\sms commands, then make 3 batch files in that folder called: shutdown.bat, logoff.bat, and lock.bat. Codes:

shutdown.bat

    

@echo off

shutdown -f -s

logoff.bat

    @echo off

shutdown -l

lock.bat

    @echo off

rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation

cls

Sixth: Now we need to configure the addon. This is very important earlier we made three folders in the inbox, you must select one folder such as shutdown, Then, go to Tools -> Mailbox Alert Preferences. Then tick the execute command box, then browse to your shutdown.bat file. If you are making more commands just repeat this step for lock, and logoff BUT MAKE SURE TO SELECT THOSE FOLDERS!

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Tips: To decrease the delay between the sending of the text message to the shutting down of the computer, go to Tools -> Account Settings...
click "Server Settings" on the left side under the account you will be receiving text messages on. Under the server settings part of the box, change Check for new messages every 30 minutes to every 1 minute.

Also in the filters when you specify what word(s) will trigger the shutdown I would suggest you make it something unique because if any email contains that word it will shutdown. So make it something like: -=shutdown=- or ~@shutdown]}.

Just text the keyword to your email and watch the magic.
Now you are all done! :pirate: Thank you for reading my tutorial. Please leave any comments/ questions below.