Free remote access for Windows PC's

I use this for work and it's very good.

Now they have a free version for up to 5 PC's at home:

https://www.mywebexpc.com/index.php

I thought this may be useful to some of you.

 

Been using their web conferencing tool for the past year or so which
works very well.


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"Rope" advised:

I use WinVNC to access 3 pc's on my home network, works fine although can be
a little slow. Help if you turn the screen res. down on any remote server
(ie. storage or printer server)

 

Anyone been playing with the Vista beta ?
There is a nice little n/w app in there for displaying remote desktops (non
interactive) called Network Projector.

 

Bugger, didn't see that bit.

Ah, this bit, you mean?

How much does it cost?

MyWebEx PC is free. During our free preview, you will enjoy the
benefits of MyWebEx PC Pro for free, and install the application on up
to 5 PCs. After the preview ends, you will be given the option to s tay
on the Pro version for as low as $7.95/month for each PC, or you can
continue with our free version. For more details, please refer to the
plans page.

True, but not as secure...

 

Bad form, etc. But the free version is for one PC only. More than
enough for most, I would have thought.

 

For me neither. But then again, real men use putty.

 

<Waves>

Phil

 

You're still fixing broken Windows?

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<G> Nice.

 

Wasn't it just

 

Nobody ever brought out an OS called Half-Brick, did they?

 

I used to use TightVNC to support a couple of customers, until I
implemented alpha-blended dialog boxes in my app - which TightVNC
completely fails to transmit to the remote client (i.e. me).

I'll have to try RealVNC at some point to see if it works properly.

 

UltraVNC is quite nice.

 

Ooh - ta. I hadn't even heard of that one. I'll have a closer look.

 

Just tried an ultraVNC session and it worked a treat. It even copes with
the freaky-weird directdraw video overlay shennanigans that I'm doing.
Highly recommended. Thanks for that.

 

If you have access to the PC you want to control:
www.logmein.com - no setup, just install on your account on the site
and it just works. It's free for the basic (although it's not that
basic) thing which is enough for work->home or home->work, but the paid
options are pretty impressive.

If you don't then logmein do some paid stuff, or use UltraVNC
SingleClick - free, and once set up you just send a file to the person
at the other end (i.e. the client, your parent/neighbour/etc). They
run it, it connects to you, do the business. No installation at their
end, no passwords etc.

There's remote desktop and all, but option 1 here doesn't need any
router fiddling, option 2 only needs it done at your end. Job's done.

 

The logmein.com thing lets you put on a fair amount of computers on one
account. Very helpful support folks too. I'm not involved, I've just
had *very* good experience with them.

 

Me too.

 

Well duh.