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Problems with Remote Desktop

Discussion in 'Networking (Hardware & Software)' started by AndrewLeonard, 2011/01/31.

  1. 2011/01/31
    AndrewLeonard

    AndrewLeonard Inactive Thread Starter

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    I was surfing the net and found http://www.labgear.net by accident. This site invites one to connect to them using Remote Destop. This seems to work. However when I try to connect to my netbook, I get the message "Remote Desktop can't connect to the remote computer for one of these reasons: ".
    My main computer is a running Windows XP and my netbook Windows 7 Starter. I have tried to set everything up as advised by several sites. What I do notice is that in System/Remote I only have Remote Assistance option not the Remote Desktop but I seem to have Remote Desktop program on both my computers.
    Any ideas?
     
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    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    Welcome to WindowsBBS;)

    All Windows Home versions and Starter - can only call out to a Professional version and can NOT receive calls in.

    You might want to look onto TeamViewer which is pretty easy to use and will do what you want.
     
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    AndrewLeonard

    AndrewLeonard Inactive Thread Starter

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    I have tried Teamviewer and it works, thank you
    The only problem is that it seems to leave Teamviewer.exe running as a process after I closed it down. Is it supposed to do that?
     
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  5. 2011/02/25
    TonyT

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    Uninstall Team Viewer and either reinstall it or not. Sounds like you installed it and when prompted chose to have it run as a Service. In fact, you don't even have to install it, just doubleclick the Teamviewer download and select "Run" each time you use it and it will work.
     
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