Remote Desktop Connection

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We are introducing this topic in order to guide you, valued customer, how to setup Remote Desktop Connection (RDC), at your Operating System (OS):

• In the Control-Panel, select the System icon, or right-click "My Computer" on the desktop and select Properties.

• Select the tab : Remote

Where you can find two main parts, the first is Remote Assistance, and the second is for Remote Desktop.
By default, "Remote Desktop", is not activated.

Note: you need to be a user with Administrative rights to activate Remote Desktop !

• Place the check mark to activate, to allow users to connect remotely to this computer.

You will get a warning message concerning the configuration of Internet Connection sharing and/or a personal firewall, which must be configured to allow such Remote Desktop connections.

• You need to "Select Remote Users..": the users, which will be allowed to use Remote Desktop access to connect to your system.

• Any users with Administrator permission will have automatically access permissions, other users will have to be added.

Note : while you or somebody else is connecting via Remote Desktop, you can NOT use the system : The screen will display this message, advising that the system is in use.

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We are introducing this topic in order to guide you, valued customer, how to use the Remote Desktop Connection Software:

Note : You can use any 32-bit version of Windows to install / run the Client s/w for Remote Desktop .

• You can access The Remote Desktop Connection Application via the Windows -> Start-menu under Accessories / Communications :

• Enter the name or IP-address of the Windows XP Prof system, to which you like to connect. You should look at the "Options >>" to adjust / optimize your Remote Desktop connection.

At tab : General : You can enter here already the Username and password, to be used to connect to the Windows XP Prof. system. To be able to re-use this information on later connections, you can save this configuration values and reuse them via Open.

• At tab : Display : If you are connecting via a high-speed LAN network, you will not bother about this, but when connecting via a modem, you can optimize the connection and get a faster response-time by selecting a smaller Remote Desktop size and a lower Color resolution.

• At tab : Local Resources : You can configure the transfer of Sound alerts and which of your local devices (from the remote system, where you are right now working on) will be accessible during your Remote Desktop session.
  More details will follow below.

• At tab : Experience : To help the Remote Desktop s/w to optimize the connection, select the speed of your connection. You should also de-select all "fancy" features , like : Wallpaper and any animation, because they will only use transmission time.

Once the connection is properly configured, you are ready to Connect :

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