![]() ![]() Tip: life is much simpler if you only have one Google account and use it for everything. By this time you’ve probably figured out your Google account, right? It’s the account used to set up your Android phone, and the account shown in the upper right corner of Google pages when you use Chrome. You have to be signed into your Google account to use Chrome Remote Desktop. Google services are tied to your Google account – usually (but not always) a Gmail address and password. ![]() There are a few things to know about Chrome Remote Desktop. This article explains how to use Chrome Remote Desktop to provide remote assistance to friends and family. If you’re not already using another service and it would occasionally be helpful to access your work or home computer from another location, try it! Here’s a complete explanation of how to set it up to access your own computer. Like many of Google’s services, Chrome Remote Desktop is simple to set up and simple to use – so simple that power users find it too limited. Microsoft never took extra steps to make it useful for normal people, which is a bit of a theme for Microsoft in the last few years. You don’t know how to do any of those things, do you? Of course you don’t. Some versions of Windows include a built-in Remote Desktop program all you have to do to use it is set your computer to a static IP address, log into your router, set up forwarding of port 3389 to your PC (which is a security risk), and add your user account to the Remote Desktop Users group. Lots of people use TeamViewer, which might or might not be free and is definitely a bit odd. (Would you believe it’s now $250/year?) Now I recommend Splashtop, which is inexpensive and feature-rich. At one time we all used LogMeIn because it was free. There are lots of remote control programs. Once the session has ended, you can’t reconnect unless they get another code for you. When you type that code number into the app on your computer, you’ll be connected to their computer for a one-time session. Someone else can install Chrome Remote Desktop on their own computer and click “Share,” then read you a code number. It’s like any other remote control program: the screen appears exactly as if you were sitting in front of the computer, with full keyboard and mouse control. You’ll be able to start a remote session with a single tap on the Connect button. Then install the app on another device – computer or phone. (It installs a Windows service behind the scenes.) Once it’s set up, it runs continuously you don’t have to leave Chrome open to use it. Add it to your computer from the Chrome Web Store. With Chrome Remote Desktop, you can control a Windows or Mac computer remotely from almost any other device: another Windows or Mac computer, a Chromebook, an iPhone or iPad, or an Android phone or tablet.Ĭhrome Remote Desktop is a free app from Google. Sometimes it seems like Google is having all the fun with new technology. I stumbled on a pretty amazing Chrome app that I’ve been overlooking for five years. I kind of vaguely knew that it could do other cool tricks. ![]()
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