(Make sure you give the computer’s owner a heads up so he doesn’t think his computer is being controlled by ghosts-wink wink.) Once you’ve finished whatever maintenance you’re doing, the session can be closed from either the remote computer or your own. You’ll have total access to the remote computer, on the screen of which you’ll see all your interactions reflected as you do them. Type in the destination ID and tick the Remote Control option, and then when you click Connect to Partner a window will open where you see the desktop of the destination computer. In order to be able to remotely access a computer, you’ll need its access details so you can type them into the Control a remote computer field.

On the left side of the screen you’ll see that an access ID and password will have automatically been assigned to you. To connect two computers you have to have TeamViewer installed on both. Once you install the program and run it, you’ll see a screen like the one below: This program lets you control any computer from any other one, allowing you to see everything that’s happening on the screen of the remote device in a window on your own operating system, with the added attraction of being able to interact with the remote computer using your own keyboard and mouse as if you were right there in front of it thanks to visual streaming. I’m going to explain now how to do that using the free tool TeamViewer. What many people don’t know, though, is that you can save a bit of runaround time by remotely and straightforwardly accessing PCs without having to do loads of annoying configurations on the destination device.

I’d be willing to wager that most of you who read this blog are probably the IT nerds of your families, and find yourselves called on now and then to resolve IT problems for your friends and relatives.

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