COMPUTER REPAIR

GoToMyPC

If you've left your PC running in the office or at home, you can remotely control it from the house or on your laptop PC while on the road. Software utilities like these have been around since before the internet age using phone lines, but with the internet, apps like the GoToMyPC Remote Access is a breeze to use. You only need to install GoToMyPC in the PC that you need to remotely access from time to time. Of course, this could be both your home and office PC as you may need to access one or the other depending on your location at the moment.

GoToMyPC Features

• The only pre-requisite to accessing and control a remote PC is that it remains powered and hooked online. You can then work on this PC from another PC or Mac laptop or desktop in real time from anywhere on the planet by just accessing the online site. You can also remotely control it from the iPad with a suitable software you can downloads from it App Store with the right subscription.
• It has multi-monitor support. That means you can see full displays of remote PC that use multiple screens. You can also hear the alert sounds or play music files on the remote PC and hear them.
• You can disable screen display, keyboard and mouse use of the remote PC while you are controlling or accessing it. Remote printing is supported as long as the remote PC is connected to one.
• You can access as many remote computers with an online facility to copy and paste between apps to and from any of these remote computers. In addition, file synching can be implemented across these remotely controlled computers with just a click of the mouse. You can even drag and drop files between remote screens.
• All data that goes to your remote devices gets a 128-bit AES encryption while account access online is protected by authentication and dual passwords.

GoToMyPC User Friendliness

Installation is a breeze as GoToMyPC launches automatically after you've downloaded it. You can simply go through the prompts to get it installed, configuring itself along the for a Windows platform without having to restart your PC. The remote control facility works in the background as you only see the screens of the remote PCs you are working on.

GoToMyPC Summary

GoToMyPC is a nifty tool for computer users who are always on the road and would need to access their files in a remote PC from anywhere on the planet. This need can easily be solved with cloud computing or online storage facilities. Otherwise, GoToMyPC still retains much of the usefulness it had prior to the internet age.