Remote Desktop

meeker

Anyone have any ideas about a Remote Desktop application that lets me connect to my parents PC and configure their new PC and Wireless Router?

Nakatomi2010

Windows XP actually has that Remote Assistance thing which is supposed to be pretty good for giving support remotely.

Alternatively you can pop VNC on that bad boy and call it a day.

meeker

Does that work for a computer out of your network?

TychoCelchuuu

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ts_cmd_mstsc.mspx?mfr=true

1ddqd

Also, LogMeIn works pretty well.

Nakatomi2010

RDP only works if you're connecting to an XP Pro box...

TychoCelchuuu

Nakatomi2010 wrote: »

RDP only works if you're connecting to an XP Pro box...

Yeah and it works pretty well too!

meeker

Their PC is Win Xp and I have Win 7 and XP boxes here. I might give LogMeIn a try. Thanks all.

exoplasm

1ddqd wrote: »

Also, LogMeIn works pretty well.

This is by far the best way to support family/friends remotely. They don't have to dick around with firewall settings or anything. Just sign up, install it, e-mail invite tech guru and you're done. Unlike Remote Desktop (which is great if you can get around network configuration issues and security issues) they can still see the screen so you can even instruct them on how to do things.