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    Remote Desktop: Target is Vista Home Premium

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by dSly, Jun 14, 2010.

  1. dSly

    dSly Notebook Guru

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    I have two Vista Home Premium machines and two W7 Home machines in my home network. One Vista machine is my music server and I would like to access it remotely (to edit playlists let's say).

    I have seen this item:
    Windows Vista/XP Remote Desktop Review

    and recommendations about TeamViewer.

    Is TeamViewer a no-brainer for my situation or are there better (and equally cheap) solutions?

    Thanks.
     
    dSly, Jun 14, 2010
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  2. Kuu

    Kuu That Quiet Person

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    You can only connect to a machine if it's running XP Pro+ or anything above Home Premium for Vista/7, so you'll either have to get an upgrade or use TeamViewer. The latter seems free but I don't have any experience with it, but free is free, might as well give it a shot?

    Another thing you could do is share the computer's entire drive you're trying to access, but I don't think that's what you're trying to do.
     
    Kuu, Jun 14, 2010
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  3. dSly

    dSly Notebook Guru

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    You're right, I want to run an application on the remote computer as if I were working on it. Thanks.
     
    dSly, Jun 14, 2010
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  4. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yeah, if the target computer is not running a higher version of Windows you're out of luck with Microsoft's solution. You'll need to look into something else.

    Might want to read up on a few of our remote access reviews.
    http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=5430
     
    Greg, Jun 14, 2010
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  5. dSly

    dSly Notebook Guru

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    Interesting link. Thanks. You wouldn't know how TeamViewer compares, would you?
     
    dSly, Jun 16, 2010
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  6. jason1214

    jason1214 Notebook Evangelist

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    You could just set up fast user switching and remote desktop into it, or just use remote desktop to begin with.
     
    jason1214, Jun 17, 2010
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  7. coolguy

    coolguy Notebook Prophet

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    TeamViewer does it all. I often use it, and recommend it.
     
    coolguy, Jun 17, 2010
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  8. dSly

    dSly Notebook Guru

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    I understand that remote desktop is not available on Vista Home.
    Ran TeamViewer earlier tonight. Works great. Love it.
     
    dSly, Jun 17, 2010
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    jason1214 Notebook Evangelist

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    You are right of course. I forgot about that.
     
    jason1214, Jun 17, 2010
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