Remote Access your PC

12 April 2009 1 views No Comment

The reason or reasons you need to remotely access your PC are aplenty. For me, I remotely access my cousins(2 pc) and my dads pc to perform simple maintenance.
Remote access can be within your home or outside your home via the internet.

The usual way anyone will remote is using Windows Remote Desktop Connection that comes with Windows. While this does the trick, leaving this particular port open leaves your system to attacks. You see, Windows is popular there are idiots out there who would love to have an open port to reek havoc to your system. You can change the port number but I will give you another solution.

This is one solution no one should miss. It is entirely free and easy to use. Where ever you are, simply sign in to logmein.com and you will see the computers you have installed the client on. Click the computer and you are ready to remotely access.

Sign-up

Simply sign up, download and install.

After Install

Upon installation and activation, you will see an icon appear on your task bar.
You are done. Right-clicking the icon will prompt some icons to disable and configure options

Adding another PC

If you want to remotely access your current pc:

1. Login to logmein.com
2. Click add computers.
3. Install the free version.

Remote Access

Upon logging in you will see the PC that was added in by you

Simply select the PC you want to access and wait for it load. Note that logmein makes use of java to load the screen, so ensure you have the latest version installed.

Conclusion

This remote access method is easy to use and straight forward to setup. I have high praises for it and highly recommend this to anyone. If you have left some documents behind in your home, this is the fastest way to get it.

There might be some slowness depending on network traffic. I use this method to perform maintenance on another pc, so slowness is not an issue as I will start a defrag and log off. Log back in to perform other task once the previous task is complete.

Go to logmein.com