Patrick's Rants

I was trying to get my mom to send me an invite for her remote assistant in Windows. I was ready to jab a spoon in my eye when I stumbled upon TeamViewer. It’s not the best screen view on the controller’s end, but it is super fast and super easy. And the settings might be adjustable, I just wanted to get her computer down so I could get on with my day. It somehow bounces off the TeamViewer servers to find the end points and that could be a minor security concern, but again I wanted it done.

I normally use other software, remote desktop across an ssh tunnel, but there was no way I was talking mom through that. In a pinch it worked and worked very well. And the price is right for personal use – free.