Easiest choice, get the free tiny Wizmo.exe from Steve Gibson's http://www.GRC.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm, put it in your Windows\system folder (so you can execute this from anywhere), then execute one of these commands:
- Wizmo.exe Shutdown!
- Wizmo.exe Reboot!
I won't list a number of commandline options and programs you could write to do these tasks, when there's a perfectly good choice for most everyone that's free. Steve Gibson from GRC Research wrote a tiny utility to do a complete job, with more options that you'd ever want. It
It also includes the option to force these immediately, simply by adding a "!" to any of the commandline options. Steve says,
"The shutdown trigger commands list above accept an optional exclamation point "!". For example: "reboot!" (pronounced "Reboot Damit!"). A word of caution: Since the Damit Variations force the requested function to succeed, even if programs or device drivers have refused to give Windows their permission to be shutdown, you should be certain that this is what you want and that any files are safely saved."
For me, these commands are all I need to force a reboot, although I find the other options such as suspend and hibernate saves time. (Another user's question was removed earlier today and I thought it was a valuable question.)