Remote assistance vista home basic

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John said on February 24, at pm. PcHelpWare is your solution, search for it :. Rakesh said on March 2, at am. Correct me if I am wrong. Maarten said on March 5, at am. C said on March 8, at pm. John said on March 10, at am. Shawn said on March 10, at am. Ok, so I have ultraVNC, same thing really.

Very very easy to set up. It works but only if A: There is no password screen— I must be logged in as a user and ready to go and B: I dont try to do anything that requires security. Vista is freaking overkill in some cases. Joe Shome said on May 12, at pm. This is a totally useless tip! Alexis said on May 23, at pm.

Home premium and home basic only have remote assistance. As temporary end run, I commented out one part of source in SDisplay. Please put it up on the web. How can we get around this UAC business? CaraDmoco said on October 9, at pm. This has nothing to do with remote desktop. Mater said on October 14, at am. Shah said on October 15, at am. Kiran Patel said on November 18, at pm.

How do I install Remote Desktop Connection? UserDL said on January 8, at pm. Phil said on January 13, at pm. Hope this helps. Adam said on January 15, at pm. Birdy said on April 10, at pm. Macca said on April 16, at pm.

Filipe Fumaux said on May 9, at pm. Wyzerd said on May 24, at pm. Any of you ever heard of Teamviewer? Thanks, wyz. WhackAttack said on September 15, at am. Just trying to provide remote support for family. Teamviewer is awesome. Brook Niebauer said on September 16, at pm. Robyn said on October 17, at am. Yem said on December 3, at am. MPG said on December 31, at am. Lan said on May 20, at pm. Dan said on June 11, at am. Al Del Vecchio said on August 7, at pm. VNC is too slow.

RDP is the only solution really. Remote Desktop Software said on February 19, at am. Alara said on April 26, at am. RightGuy said on January 18, at pm. The message from Microsoft is very clear.

Rob said on July 11, at am. For the good of humanity please kill yourselves now. John Click said on September 20, at am. You have 3 options plus Users info to complete under the Remote tab. I do not. So, am I wasting my time trying to do the impossible with Home Edition? How did HP connect to me? Thank you. I would suggest that you read through the whole forum carefully before attempting this procedure. Notice that if you have Vista Home Basic the process will not work at all, so first you will have to determine which version of Vista you have.

You will also need to know whether or not you have installed Service Pack 1, because if you have, you will need to use the additional patch. Depending on which version of Vista you are running, your System Properties window will look slightly different than mine. Windows Remote Assistance is a way to let someone connect to your computer remotely and help you solve a problem. Thanks to both Donna and Tom for responding. Both were helpful.

Tom had what I was looking for. Apparently I was asking for the wrong thing. Windows Remote Assistant works for what I want to do. Donna thanks for the link. Grampy, Both of these procedures allow you to connect to a remote computer, but there is a major difference.

With Remote Desktop Connection you have access to all of the files, applications, and resources on the remote computer, but while you are connected, the remote computer screen will appear to be blank. Windows Remote Assistance, on the other hand, was designed to allow a technical person or just a friend or colleague to assist a user at another location with their computer or to show them how to do something.

Both the client computer screen and the remote computer screen will display the same thing. Now here is the bad news. Windows Remote Assistance can be used to access the Home editions of Vista, but you cannot use the Home editions to connect to other computers! So are you totally frustrated, yet?

I think there are a lot of other Windows Vista Home edition users that are in the same boat. The good news is that there are several third party applications that will work for you. I would suggest that you give one of these a try.

And from Going back to step 5 system properties , my RDC doesnt give me the option to select users. The whole bottom portion of the screen isnt even on my systems properties screen.

Please help. Click on the Start Orb. We need someone from Microsoft, with direct knowledge of this subject, to answer the simple question. It is useless for people to endlessly search the various forums, getting advice from people that have no real clue.

This thread has been open for more than a year - where are you Microsoft? I am running vista home premium exceptions allowed in firewall and allow users to connect remotely is enabled. My mother is running vista home basic exceptions allowed in firewall and allow users to connect remotely is enabled. I am using a pop3 email service if this matters. My mother is using free yahoo email service non pop3.

She can connect to my computer after I sent her an invitation but I can not connect to her computer when she sent me an invitation. When you receive an invitation to help someone through email do you need to save the invitation to your hardrive or is ok to run from the email I'm just trying to figure out what is not allowing me to connect to her computer and why she can connect to mine???

Someone please help Routers with multiple machines behind them and directed to the proper machines, firewalls on both sides with Remote Desktop and Remote Assistance as allowed exceptions, etc. Thus - why I recommend the ease of something like TeamViewer. Office Office Exchange Server.

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Sign in to vote. I have a customer on Vista Home Basic. I am on XP pro svkpk2. Wednesday, February 28, PM.

Wednesday, March 14, PM. No, Make sure that the client has setup a paasword for you to access his PC. Now you must make sure under windows firewall the port is open. The Vista user had all firewalls off. I need more explicit directions. Saturday, March 3, PM. Tuesday, March 6, AM. How do you ping a remote computer behind a firewall? I am having the same problems.

Tuesday, March 13, AM. The new Windows firewall feature request the port to be opened. You may want to check for network issues or determine if the invitation expired or was cancelled by the person who sent it" Everything that has to do with Windows Live Messenger and Remote Assistance is check under the exceptions tab of the firewall, and, the radio button is filled for the part that allows outside computers to connect versus the local LAN.

Is there another way in the firewall to open port ? Thanks EDIT: I forgot about being able to add a port under the exceptions tab of the firewall, but when I tried to open port it said it was already done by the Remote Desktop exception.

Tuesday, April 10, PM. Having the same problem, and all forum I could find have not found solution. Now with Vista, I cant.