Powershell - Changing the state of a computer (sleep, hibernate, shutdown, restart)

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Hello,

A new article to show how to change the state of a computer (sleep, hibernate, shutdown, reboot) with Powershell. The forced option is useful if, for example, a user session is open and prevents the action (boot…) from taking place.

# Put to sleep
Add-Type -Assembly System.Windows.Forms
[System.Windows.Forms.Application]::SetSuspendState(‘Suspend’, $false, $false)

# Force to sleep
Add-Type -Assembly System.Windows.Forms
[System.Windows.Forms.Application]::SetSuspendState(‘Suspend’, $true, $false)

# Put into hibernation
Add-Type -Assembly System.Windows.Forms
[System.Windows.Forms.Application]::SetSuspendState(‘Hibernate’, $false, $false)

# Force Hibernate
Add-Type -Assembly System.Windows.Forms
[System.Windows.Forms.Application]::SetSuspendState(‘Hibernate’, $true, $false)

# Restart
Restart-Computer

# Force restart
Restart-Computer -Force

# Stop
Stop-Computer

# Force stop
Stop-Computer -Force