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After having forwarded the RDP port in my router and enabling WoL at my computer, I can remotely power on my shut down computer just by attempting to connect to it via RDP.

Just as a temporary fix until my VPN router arrives, is there any way to disable the computer to start when I try to connect with RDP while still letting me connect if it is already online?

Notes:

  • A custom RDP port was set.
  • This only works when the computer went to hibernation (not working after shutdown)
  • Wake on LAN is enabled and should stay that way as I (temporarily) use a Raspberry Pi to wake the computer. This works, however, also RDP starts it up, which is exactly what I try to disable.
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Well, WoL is not a feature of the RDP protocol. It just happens that RDP protocol works over the networking protocol which has WoL enabled. So, the answer is probably no. What you can do is put something like Insteon / Samsung Smartthings etc. on the PC power plug, so you turn on the PC (via the plug that is connected to the Internet), wait until the PC boots up and then connect via RDP. When you are done, run in cmd shutdown /h /t 0, wait for a few minutes until the PC turns off and turn off the plug.

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