HELP! Program to take over a PC needed ASAP !

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Brains

Legendary Member
Location
Greenwich
Evening all,

Help !!
My 80 year old mother in Cornwall has managed to mess up her laptop, I'm sure it's simple for us techy minded to unscramble but I need one of those programs that I can instruct her to download from t'web so that i can drive her PC remotely.

Has anyone any experience of a good quality freebie one that actually works ??

Yours in desperation .....
 

sparkyman

Kinamortaphobic
Location
Blackpool
Try goto meeting or logmein.

Sparkyman
 

RyanW

The abominable Bikeman
Location
Ashford, Kent
Im pretty sure there is a MSN / Inbuilt windows app to do it. i used to work at a place that could take over any PC to do a repair and we didnt install anything special.


was a while ago and i cannot remember what the hell we used. We did use pro XP so i guess it was just remote access.

Im still pretty sure u can do it with non-pro versions... somehow
 

birder56

New Member
Location
Kent
Do bear in mind that Logmein does need to be installed on your mum's machine. If the lady is up to this then I'm impressed because I didn't have that luck when sorting out my mum-in-law's laptop.
Logmein is good but I do hope there is a really good broadband connection in Cornwall or the screen will appear to freeze at either or both ends. This will cause one of you to reboot and create general mayhem.
I do hope it works for you both.
 

rogersavery

New Member
Teamviewer is simply to get running, and unlike windows xp remote doesn't need anything special setup in the router or firewall
 

johnnyh

Veteran
Location
Somerset
ultravnc?
 

swee'pea99

Legendary Member
+1 for logmein, with the caveat above, that it needs to be installed by mum (tho' that must surely be true of all such progs)
 
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