fimplix

Hey, I'm new here. I joined because i wanted to know a lot more about computers and how they work and all the technical big words everybody uses to talk about them. I think i pretty much have a good background of computers, but i still want to learn more. I guess i should start straight away:

1) I recently have been fooling around with the Command program (is it a program?). You know, where you do -->Run -->cmd. I was searching online for some cool things to do and i found out about the "shutdown -i" command. First of all, i was wondering how this command really works. How can one computer shut down another computer? I tried using my lap top to shut down my brothers computer, but all it said was Access Denied, or something like that. Maybe i was just typing the computer name wrong? Or maybe my lap top doesnt have "more control" over his desktop.

Mainly i want to know how, in one house-hold, all the computers are literally "combined?" Does it have to do anything with internet? or lan? or what?

I'm currently running Windows Vista, if that helps with anything.

hackapelite

Knowing how to use the command prompt isn't gonna take you far... but anyway, the computers have to be connected somehow. It's impossible to control a computer if they're not connected, and I don't know how controlling another computer thru the command prompt would be possible anyway. How are you computers/internet setup? Like do you have wireless routers and so on, what kinda internet, wireless/WiFi, maybe?

Okay and you probably will never know *everything* about computers anyway, computer gurus specialize in different areas, say, networking&stuff, programming, illegal activities, cyberwarfare, multimedia, torrenting porn and each of those areas would be divided into a thousand others...

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fimplix

I have a lap top connected to wireless, a desktop connected to wireless through one of those USB things, and another desktop connected to the internet through ethernet. How does this make them connected?