Re: Remote Access To Someoby Else's PC?

Use www.logmein.com
log me in

its free, it works great and it doesnt have any problems like the other
suggestions. It also needs no remote hand holding after the initial one time
client (also free) install.

-john

"(PeteCresswell)" <x@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I started trying to pursue this in the Windows XP NG, but in
trying to sound like I knew something I think I confused the
issue.

Bottom line:
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- I built up a PC for a close family member that lives 100
miles away. An Asus MB, of course.... -)

- That person is a classic technophobe. i.e. not somebody
that you'd want to work a problem with over the phone.

- To address the inevitable and recurring problems this box
will raise, it occurs to me that I should figure out how
to logon to it and troubleshoot things from afar.

- I'm willing to put up a purchase price for some product or
another, but don't want to get wrapped up in some pay-by-the
month scheme as with RemotePC.

- Windows XP Pro, both boxes.

- Verizon Fios on this end, Verizon DSL ("Broadband") on
the other end.

- I'm figuring on driving to the other person's place sometime
this week, picking up the box, and bringing it home to
work on - then, when whatever remote access tool seems tb
working locally, I'll drive it back down there, get somebody
technically-inclined on my home PC, and try to get is shaken
down in it's final config.
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Can anybody offer up some advice?
--
PeteCresswell


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