I bet you ran in to this over the Holidays. “My laptop is SO slow!” When you look at it, you discover Cousin Edith is storing her Documents /pictures/music on the c: partition, which in her lousy laptop was set up to be only for the OS. The user data was supposed to go on the huge d: partition.
If you are lazy, hop over to Active @ Partition Manager and use it to shrink her d: drive and expand her c:.
I know you’re supposed to move her data to d: and do it that way, but who has time? Have at it, if you like.
There are many remote access tools – Team Viewer, Logmein, GotomyPC, and even RDP, VNC and Chrome Remote Desktop.
My recent tool of choice is AeroAdmin. This neat little tool gets it all done. It can be free, if you don’t use it too much. It can be set in always-on listening mode, and it does all the main things you would want a remote access tool to do.
Easy peasy. Try it.
It comes as a little exe file. When you open it, you get a nine digit pin you can give to someone to remotely control your PC, or you can type in the pin of a computer you either set up for connection, or are chatting with a user who just installed AeroAdmin. The PIN for a computer never changes, which is real nice.
Just for old time sake, does anyone remember Symantec’s PCAnywhere? That got the ball rolling, I think. It was like magic back then!
One of my favorite applications is PortableApps. I have mine on a USB on my key chain at all times. It has all my favorite utilities on it, including Revo Uninstaller, CCleaner, Process Explorer and FileZilla. Just pop the USB into a PC, and all your tools are right there.
And every time you open PortableApps, all your programs are checked for updates, and updated as needed.
You can also log in to your personal accounts in Chrome or Opera, and all your other stuff it there, like your Gmail and Facebook, for example. You can get your email on someone else’s computer without going through the gruesome tasks of opening an incognito/private tab, logging in, and then worrying the rest of the day that you may have forgotten to log out and close the tab.
