Remote Access

An attorney leaves a big firm to open his own practice and discovers he needs access to his office PC from the road. We outline the options, which range from installing a virtual private network to using a simple Web-based service.

Remote Assistance is a tool designed to allow users to solicit help from a technician, friend, helpdesk, or vendor. Remote Assistance is similar to remote control packages like VNC or pcAnywhere – for occasional support it should work just fine for you.

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Remote Desktop in Windows XP Professional lets you control your computer remotely using another PC.

With the Remote Desktop Web Connection in Windows XP, you can run Remote Desktop session from within Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Read up on the three things you need to set up your computer to use Remote Desktop.

Learn how to turn on the Remote Desktop feature on your office computer so that you can control it remotely from another computer.

If you're running Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000, you'll need to install the Remote Desktop communications client.

Once you have enabled your Windows XP Professional computer to allow remote connections, and installed client software on a Windows-based client computer, you are ready to start a Remote Desktop session.

Get answers to common questions about the Remote Desktop feature in Windows XP.