Opinions about GoToMyPC service?

Thinking about trying the free 30 day trial period.

Anyone have any Pros or cons about GoToMyPC
remote control service?

Mark-

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"Mark Conrad" <> wrote in message news:080720082326225418% ...

Thinking about trying the free 30 day trial period.

Anyone have any Pros or cons about GoToMyPC
remote control service?

Mark-

How about trying Logmein, I have used this for some time and when the trial
runs you can use the free version for life.

Mike
"Mark Conrad" <> wrote in message
news:080720082326225418% ...
>
> Thinking about trying the free 30 day trial period.
>
> Anyone have any Pros or cons about GoToMyPC
> remote control service?
>
> Mark-

Seconded. Logmein.com is FREE, and works great. I have my siblings,
parents, and children's PC's all set up so when they call and say "my
computer's being weird" I can log right in from anywhere and see what's
going on. I can access my home PC's from work. things like remote printing
only come in the paid version, but if I need something from home I just
email it to myself at work, and print it here. It is virtually zero
configuration which means you don't have to do anything with firewalls, or
port forwarding.




"Michael John Ruff" <> wrote in message
news:Q5_ck.150771$2...
> How about trying Logmein, I have used this for some time and when the
> trial runs you can use the free version for life.
>
> Mike
> "Mark Conrad" <> wrote in message
> news:080720082326225418% ...
>>
>> Thinking about trying the free 30 day trial period.
>>
>> Anyone have any Pros or cons about GoToMyPC
>> remote control service?
>>
>> Mark-
>
>

When connected to a target PC using Logmein Free, can you make that target
PC download and install software applications?


"KDE" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Seconded. Logmein.com is FREE, and works great. I have my siblings,
> parents, and children's PC's all set up so when they call and say "my
> computer's being weird" I can log right in from anywhere and see what's
> going on. I can access my home PC's from work. things like remote
printing
> only come in the paid version, but if I need something from home I just
> email it to myself at work, and print it here. It is virtually zero
> configuration which means you don't have to do anything with firewalls, or
> port forwarding.
>
>
>
>
> "Michael John Ruff" <> wrote in message
> news:Q5_ck.150771$2...
> > How about trying Logmein, I have used this for some time and when the
> > trial runs you can use the free version for life.
> >
> > Mike
> > "Mark Conrad" <> wrote in message
> > news:080720082326225418% ...
> >>
> >> Thinking about trying the free 30 day trial period.
> >>
> >> Anyone have any Pros or cons about GoToMyPC
> >> remote control service?
> >>
> >> Mark-
> >
> >
>
>

you control the mouse and keyboard just like you were sitting at that PC,
so yes. you can surf the web, download, install, etc. you can not
transfer files between your pc and the host using the logmein free service,
the response time depends on your connection speed of both computers so
there may be a little lag in response time. (usually not bad and definitely
workable)


"Tuttle" <> wrote in message
news:e0zf%...
> When connected to a target PC using Logmein Free, can you make that target
> PC download and install software applications?
>
>
> "KDE" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Seconded. Logmein.com is FREE, and works great. I have my siblings,
>> parents, and children's PC's all set up so when they call and say "my
>> computer's being weird" I can log right in from anywhere and see what's
>> going on. I can access my home PC's from work. things like remote
> printing
>> only come in the paid version, but if I need something from home I just
>> email it to myself at work, and print it here. It is virtually zero
>> configuration which means you don't have to do anything with firewalls,
>> or
>> port forwarding.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Michael John Ruff" <> wrote in message
>> news:Q5_ck.150771$2...
>> > How about trying Logmein, I have used this for some time and when the
>> > trial runs you can use the free version for life.
>> >
>> > Mike
>> > "Mark Conrad" <> wrote in message
>> > news:080720082326225418% ...
>> >>
>> >> Thinking about trying the free 30 day trial period.
>> >>
>> >> Anyone have any Pros or cons about GoToMyPC
>> >> remote control service?
>> >>
>> >> Mark-
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

Tuttle wrote:
> When connected to a target PC using Logmein Free, can you make that target
> PC download and install software applications?
>

By remote controlling it you can browse to the location/website of the
software you need to download on that computer and initiate the
download. So Yes.

>
> "KDE" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Seconded. Logmein.com is FREE, and works great. I have my siblings,
>> parents, and children's PC's all set up so when they call and say "my
>> computer's being weird" I can log right in from anywhere and see what's
>> going on. I can access my home PC's from work. things like remote
> printing
>> only come in the paid version, but if I need something from home I just
>> email it to myself at work, and print it here. It is virtually zero
>> configuration which means you don't have to do anything with firewalls, or
>> port forwarding.
>>
>> "Michael John Ruff" <> wrote in message
>> news:Q5_ck.150771$2...
>>> How about trying Logmein, I have used this for some time and when the
>>> trial runs you can use the free version for life.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>> "Mark Conrad" <> wrote in message
>>> news:080720082326225418% ...
>>>> Thinking about trying the free 30 day trial period.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have any Pros or cons about GoToMyPC
>>>> remote control service?
>>>>
>>>> Mark-

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Cool, thanks!


"KDE" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> you control the mouse and keyboard just like you were sitting at that PC,
> so yes. you can surf the web, download, install, etc. you can not
> transfer files between your pc and the host using the logmein free
service,
> the response time depends on your connection speed of both computers so
> there may be a little lag in response time. (usually not bad and
definitely
> workable)
>
>
> "Tuttle" <> wrote in message
> news:e0zf%...
> > When connected to a target PC using Logmein Free, can you make that
target
> > PC download and install software applications?
> >
> >
> > "KDE" <> wrote in message
> > news:...
> >> Seconded. Logmein.com is FREE, and works great. I have my siblings,
> >> parents, and children's PC's all set up so when they call and say "my
> >> computer's being weird" I can log right in from anywhere and see
what's
> >> going on. I can access my home PC's from work. things like remote
> > printing
> >> only come in the paid version, but if I need something from home I just
> >> email it to myself at work, and print it here. It is virtually zero
> >> configuration which means you don't have to do anything with firewalls,
> >> or
> >> port forwarding.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "Michael John Ruff" <> wrote in message
> >> news:Q5_ck.150771$2...
> >> > How about trying Logmein, I have used this for some time and when the
> >> > trial runs you can use the free version for life.
> >> >
> >> > Mike
> >> > "Mark Conrad" <> wrote in message
> >> > news:080720082326225418% ...
> >> >>
> >> >> Thinking about trying the free 30 day trial period.
> >> >>
> >> >> Anyone have any Pros or cons about GoToMyPC
> >> >> remote control service?
> >> >>
> >> >> Mark-
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>