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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Hmm interesting. I've been tech support to my parents over the last 10 years and I've tried plenty of configurations and installations to help them get the most out of their PC, RDP was one way I used to help them. Setting up a remote desktop into their machine can be easy, [url=http://www.microsoft.com/windowsXp/using/mobility/getstarted/Remoteintro.mspx]Windows XP[/url] has this as standard and I'm certain that Vista and 7 have this also, but you may need specific versions to get this as built in, otherwise look into [url=http://www.uvnc.com/]VNC Viewers[/url], I imagine team viewer is similar technology. I'll be honest with you though, just because I could RDP into their computer, didn't mean I had to do less, problems still kept coming up, systems still slowed to a halt, and reinstallation after reinstallation I decided that there was only one thing for it... [url=http://www.ubuntu.com/]Ubuntu[/url] My parents are 65 and 75, and certainly weren't massive users of their Windows PC, but it was familiar to them at least, I was pleasantly surprised how quickly they could use Ubuntu, and they actually enjoyed it. It's very straight forward to use for people that don't have their minds perverted with 'how Microsoft/Apple thinks should happen', the computer no longer suffers from strange periods of slow down, and I don't need to tell you about how safe it is from viruses or other malware. They've had it on there for about 2 years now and they've not looked back, I've even got a printer with scanner support hooked up for them, they have all the software they'll need installed by default. Give yourself a break and install Ubuntu. [url=http://www.alebie.com][img]http://www.geocities.com/blaise69dude/images/BlaiseSig.gif[/img][/url] Loading...
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