??? Do you need to access your work documents and programs while you??™re
at home, or access your home documents and programs while you??™re at
work? Use Remote Desktop together with VPN (see the previous section,
???Set Up Virtual Private Networking???) to bridge the link and stop
worrying about carrying so much stuff back and forth to work every day.
??? Are you the person whom family members and friends call with their
computer problems? Instead of spending hours on the phone, trying to
explain to them how to fix their computers, just connect with Remote
Desktop and fix the problem yourself in minutes.
??? Do you administer several computers in different locations? Rather than
having to go to the other side of the building (or the other side of the
state) to access another employee??™s PC, use Remote Desktop and get it
done in a fraction of the time.
??? Are you a software developer? If you need to test your software on different
operating systems or platforms, it simply isn??™t practical to use a
multiboot computer;* you??™ll just spend all your time rebooting. Instead,
set up a second (or even third) computer with the necessary test environments,
and then control them remotely right from your development
machine.
* See Chapter 1 for information on setting up more than one operating system on a single PC.
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Well, now that this chapter has descended into an advertisement for Remote
Desktop, here are some of the disadvantages.
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