I recently made a special video for Notebooks.com, and it shows how you can use the remote desktop feature in Windows Vista.
View my video at:
YouTube - How to Configure Remote Desktop on Vista
I start out by explaining the benefits of Windows Vista. There are many benefits, but here are some that I talk about
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- You can remotely access other computers on your network (at least the ones that are configured to allow remote access to it)
- If you don't have a wireless printer, and you want to remotely print from your notebook then you can remotely connect to your PC and print from there
- You can open multiple remote desktop applications. This is really useful for those that have multiple PCs on their home network and want to manage each of them from their computer. You can remotely install software, or just perform simple tasks.
After the benefits, I described the steps you need to follow for configuring remote desktop.
Step 1. Connect your remote computer online (the computer you want to control)
Step 2. Enable remote connections on the computer that you want to control, and add the appropriate users that you want to allow to be remote controlled
Step 3. Launch the Remote Desktop Connection tool. Enter in the IP address of the computer that you want to connect to
Enter in the username and password of the remote computer’s account you want to access.
After the steps, I showed an actual demonstration of how I configured a notebook for remote access and accessed it from my Windows Vista PC. You can see this in my video at:
YouTube - How to Configure Remote Desktop on Vista