TeamViewer

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Would you like to access your computer from anywhere? Have you ever forgotten a file which is at home or at work and you don't have a copy with you? Would you like to help your mum/dad/brother/sister/aunt/uncle with a problem with their PC but you are miles away? Well, if you say "yes" to any of these, you need a program called TeamViewer. There are other freeware programs which let share desktops, transfer files, and remotely control another PC (e.g. RealVNC, UltraVNC, etc), but none are as easy to set up as TeamViewer. There are free versions of commercial programs (e.g. LogMeIn), but they do not let you transfer files from PC to PC. And there are paid commercial programs with bells and whistles (e.g. GoToMyPC), but why pay if you don't have to. Instead, providing you are a non-commercial user, install TeamViewer on your PC, load TeamViewer Portable on your USB stick, and off you go!

Available from http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx