Otherwise, when you have several computers you are controlling, you would have to look up the individual PIN for each one. Although each computer in your remote desktop network must have its own unique PIN in order to access it remotely, you can choose to eliminate the requirement for typing in the PIN.

You can copy and paste between computers just as you would on a single computer.Usually there is only a very minimal and hardly noticeable lag between me initiating some action, and seeing it take effect on the remote computer. Response to mouse movements and keyboard clicks seems quicker and more seamless than with LogMeIn.As long as your remote desktop browser tab remains open, the connection to the remote computer is maintained. There’s no timeout on your remote session.Unlike LogMeIn Free, you can control multiple computers at one time simply by conducting each remote session in a separate browser window.Of course, Chrome must be running on the controlling computer since the remote session takes place in a browser window. Nor does the remote computer have to be logged in to your Google account. Once Chrome Remote Desktop is installed on a computer, that PC can be remotely controlled even if the Chrome browser is not running.Chrome Remote Desktop is available for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Chrome OS, and even Android using a web app.Here are some of the features I particularly like: Almost anything you could do on that machine if you were controlling it using its own keyboard and mouse, you can do remotely through the browser.Ĭhrome Remote Desktop has turned out to meet our needs even better than LogMeIn did. The remote session takes place in a browser window, and you see the remote computer’s desktop just as you would if you were sitting in front of it. What Is Chrome Remote Desktop?Ĭhrome Remote Desktop is an extension to Google’s Chrome browser that allows full control of a remote computer. Some research revealed that Google had a free service that would provide us with everything we had with LogMeIn and more. Purchasing the licenses needed to manage all our computers just wasn’t in the budget. (They did provide a grace period of one week before your free LogMeIn ceased to work.) From now on, only LogMeIn Pro, their paid product, would be available. But then, in January of 2014, disaster struck! LogMeIn emailed users of its free version saying that as of the date of the email, free would be free no more.

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