Connect pc remotely vista

Send a private message to progunr. Find latest posts by progunr. Originally Posted by charliec Hello I can connect remotely to my brothers laptop which runs vista using a program called 'instant house call'.

Thanks Charlie Installing a program on a computer running Vista generally causes the UAC prompt to come up, which may be what is kicking you out. Remote access programs tend to have a real problem with UAC in Vista. Try it out: access your brother's computer remotely and try to install a program. When you get kicked out, look at his computer, is there a pop up box that looks like this?

If you are on the same network, you may want to consider using Remote Desktop Click here for directions on how to enable it in Vista. I am assuming that your computer is running Windows XP. Hope this helps. Find latest posts by agoodwin.

Zizzle Posts: 1, Reputation: 1 New Member. Thanks Charlie Hey Charlie. I've been using Instant Housecall for the past couple years. Awesome tool. It works fine with UAC enabled on the Vista machine. You just make sure you've got the right settings: - Go to the administrator control panel in Instant Housecall - Make sure your download setting is "Hotline" - Ask your brother to re-download the software That will fix the problem.

You can run a test when you connect if you want: go to start, run, regedit. Expand your skills. Get new features first. A subscription to help make the most of your time. For up to 6 people. Premium apps. Try 1 month free. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! In fact, in all likelihood, these settings will be locked down and you won't be able to change them anyway.

If this is the case, your network admins will have to set up Remote Desktop access for you. A password must be set on a user's account before that user can connect to the computer remotely. Be sure that every user account that can be reached via Remote Desktop that is, every Administrator account and any Limited accounts that you entered in Step 4 has a strong password. This means a password with uppercase letters and lowercase letters and one or more numbers and punctuation, and at least 8 characters in length.

At this point, you should do two things to be sure that Remote Desktop has been set up correctly:. If you just want to use Remote Desktop within your home or office network, you're finished and can skip ahead to the part of the chapter titled "Connecting to Other Computers with Remote Desktop. Because you won't be there at your home or office to turn on your computer and establish an Internet connection, you have to set things up so that your computer and connection are always working.

If the power goes out at your home or office and your computer doesn't start itself up again automatically, you won't be able to connect. Your computer must start up automatically.

To set this up on a desktop computer, you need to get to the BIOS setup screen. You can get there when you first power up the computer, or by restarting Windows and waiting for the screen to go black. The screen tells you what key to press; it's usually the Del or F2 key.

Find an entry titled AC Power Recovery, or something similar. Change the setting so that your computer turns itself on when the AC power comes on.

On some computers, there is also an option that turns on the computer only if it was on when the power failed. That works, too. Automatic startup is generally not an option with a laptop computer. If you want remote access to your laptop, you just have to leave it on and hope that the battery takes it through any brief power outages.

Besides a 24x7 computer, you need a 24x7 Internet connection. If you have cable Internet service or a type of DSL service that does not require you to enter a username or password, you have an always-on Internet connection already and can skip ahead to the next section. For DSL service that requires sign-on, you need some means of automatically reestablishing the connection whenever your computer starts up or the connection goes down.

Microsoft's built-in Broadband connection sign-on software does not provide a reliable way by itself to keep the Internet connection permanently open. You can work around this in three ways:. You can use a hardware connection-sharing router. The router connects to your DSL modem and your computer s to the router. The router makes the DSL connection for you, and you can configure it to keep it going all the time. If you don't have a router already, it's a worthwhile investment to buy one.

Be sure to enable the router's "keepalive" feature so that your connection is kept going all the time. Otherwise, the connection might be allowed to close when there is no activity from inside your LAN, and you might not be able to connect later.

All Internet connections are established on the basis of a number called an IP address, which is to your Internet connection as your telephone number is to your phone.

Your IP address uniquely identifies your computer among all the millions of connected computers worldwide. If you use a shared connection, all your network's computers share one public IP address, much as the phone extensions in an office share one outside telephone number.

The question is, when you're somewhere else, how do you find your computer's IP address so that Remote Desktop can establish a connection to it? It has four sets of numbers separated by periods and looks something like this: This will always be your computer's number.

You can simply type this in when using the Remote Desktop client to connect to your computer. However, static addresses are relatively hard to get and usually carry a monthly surcharge; in some cases, ISPs simply cannot or will not provide them.

So although this is worth looking into, it might not be an option. My home ISP is sonic. In most cases, dial-up, DSL, and cable Internet connections use dynamic addressing, in which a different IP address is assigned to you every time you or your router connects to your ISP or, in the case of cable service, whenever your cable modem is reset.

Thus, your computer's IP address can change at any time, and you won't necessarily know what it is when you want to connect from somewhere else. The solution to this problem is to use a free dynamic domain name service DDNS. It has two parts: First, on a DDNS provider's website, you register a host name , a name of your own choice, attached to one of several domain names that the provider makes available. January 14, , pm.

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