Remote PC software – any recomendations?

[Jamie Wood]

I use Log Me In. Easy and free.

[Robert Lambie]

havent used any for years but we bought Laplink and used it allot back in the day when this was first introduced, so i imagine they have come on leaps and bounds since then.

http://www.laplink.com/

another we looked at but opted for Laplink was PC Anywhere
not sure if this is official or same software but appears to be.
http://www.anyplace-control.com/pcanywhere.shtml

[RayRosher]

A couple of options
http://www.gotomypc.co.uk/remote_access/remote_access
and gotoassist.com are the same company both are good for what they do
How ever both are are monthly or yearly paid software
Worht a look though
Re Ray:)

[David Rowland]

It’s all built in, called Remote Desktop Connection and is very fast… however useless for bitmaps/photoshop work due to internet connections unless you have a huge upload

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[Peter Normington]

teamviewer

Peter

[Tim Painter]

Thanks all, much appreciated.

I’m trying Dave’s suggestion first as it’s installed.

Tim.

[John Thomson]

Dave set up a Windows Remote Desktop connection on my network…..I put a webcam on the printer PC so that I can keep an eye on it as well…….works great.

John

[Stafford Cox]

The one I find most useful is Team Viewer.

http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx

For my support role at work, I need to be able to access PC’s and Mac’s remotely and I can run the server part of it here on my PC laptop and take control of any PC or Mac with an internet connection after talking a customer through running a very small and simple bit of client software.

And, of course, the latest versions of Shiraz have the client software installed by default 😉

Stafford

[Dan Osterbery]

Team viewer for me pc to pc and the RDF+ for pc to blackberry!

cheers

Dan

[Russell Huffer]

The problems with windows remote are many, it logs you in as another instance and lots of programs do not work with it, Wasatch RIP being a good example of this, you can see this when you try to close the machine you connected to and it says are you sure as other people are still connected.

I use Ultr@vnc every day to access my RIP pc and it is great set up as server on pc to be accesed and viewer on other pc and it interacts very cleanly.

Kind regards

Russell.

[George Zerbino]

Remote desktop control works for me.
http://www.remote-desktop-control.com
Been using it for years. Ah, and works with Wasatch no problem.

[John Cooper]

Logmein Free everyday 🙂 Cut & paste between remote and local = great

[Andy Taylor]

quote Peter Normington:

teamviewer

Peter

Is without doubt the best remote software available out there currently …and its free for non profit use.