title: Quickest way to determine if a remote PC is online
body: <p>I tend to run a lot of commands against remote PCs, but I always check to make sure they are online first. I currently use this code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>If objFSO.FolderExists("\\" &amp; strHost &amp; "\c$") Then
      'The PC is online so do your thing
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, when the remote PC is not online, it takes my laptop ~45 seconds before it times out and resolves to <code>FALSE</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to hasten the timeout? Or is there another easily implementable solution to determine if a PC is online? </p>