Go. To. My. PC Review Rating PCMag. Go. To. My. PC has long been a top choice for remote access software, and deservedly so. Of all the remote access apps weve tested, it hasby a slight marginthe best combination of security, ease of use, and feature rich services. Unlike rival products, its also almost entirely controlled from a web browser interface, or by clicking a desktop shortcut that connects to a remote machine. Fix Apps and Programs Automatically Minimize in Windows 10 Today in this topic, we are going to address a very strange problem of Windows OS which you might not. A communitybuilt site of hints and tips on using Apples new Mac OS X operating system. Toad for SQL Server Version 6. Click here for previous versions Release Notes. Tuesday, 7 April 2015. InformationWeek. com News, analysis and research for business technology professionals, plus peertopeer knowledge sharing. Engage with our community. It doesnt require navigating the interface of a standalone app. It also has the best designed mobile access app of all the apps weve tried. Go. To. My. PC is an excellent choice for the everyday users, and it shares our Editors Choice award with the more corporate oriented Team. Viewer. Why Remote Access Software Matters. With a remote access app, you can run a computer located across the room or even across the world as if you were sitting in front of its keyboard and screen. You connect to the remote machine using the app, and thenuntil you click the mouse outside the remote access windoweverything you type and every move you make with the mouse gets sent to the remote machine. Citrix Windows Explorer Opens Desktop Background' title='Citrix Windows Explorer Opens Desktop Background' />This gives you access to your own home or office desktop while traveling with your laptop, or you can send out an invitation to someone else that lets them access your machine. Almost all remote access apps also let you perform other tasks, like copying files back and forth between the machine youre really sitting in front of the local machine and the remote one, or copying text or graphics to the clipboard on one machine and pasting it on the other, or even opening a chat window so you can talk with whomever is sitting in front of the remote machine. Some apps also let you make video recordings of what happens on the remote screen, or use the remote screen like a whiteboard, drawing lines and arrows on the remote screen that are visible only while you have the whiteboard feature switched on. Plans and Features. Go. To. My. PC offers a free seven day trial, and then a monthly or annual subscription. I tested the personal version, priced at 1. Pro version starting at 2. SR-timeout-image1.png' alt='Citrix Windows Explorer Opens Desktop Background' title='Citrix Windows Explorer Opens Desktop Background' />Corporate version priced on request to the vendors sales department, for a minimum of 1. Wake on LAN. Theres no free personal version like the ones offered by Team. Viewer and VNC Connect. For the price, you get a clear interface and plenty of straightforward security options. For example, whenever you access one machine from another, you need to enter both your own Go. To. My. PC password and a second password, called an access code, that you created for the machine youre trying to access. You can also generate a list of one time passwords to print out and use instead of a single access code. More than any rival product, Go. To. My. PC offers straightforward, effortless access to remote machines, easy file transfer, sync, and chat features. It prints files from the remote machine on a printer connected to your local machine. And it provides a beginner friendly menu for sending out invitations to connect to your machine. It doesnt clutter its menu with all the advanced controls you find in Team. Viewer, for example, but its powerful enough for enterprise level use. Plus, its easy enough to install on your tech challenged uncles machine for the times when he needs your help recovering from his mistakes. Unique convenience features include an option to create a desktop shortcut for a remote PC that you access often. With this option, you dont even need to go to the web interface to reach another machineyou simply double click the icon. The viewer window that shows the remote machine has an uncluttered toolbar leading to sound, file transfer and a few other features. If the remote machine has two monitors, you can click a button on the viewer border to switch between them, or scale down the view of the remote machine so that both monitors appear in the viewer window at the same time. By default, Go. To. My. PC tries to make a direct connection between the local and remote machines, bypassing the Go. To. My. PC servers if possible, but you can turn this option off or limit it to machines within your network. What About Macs Go. To. My. PCs full feature set is available when you connect two Windows PCs, but you can also use a version that runs on a Mac with slightly reduced featuresfor example, you cant drag a file from the desktop of a remote PC to your Mac desktop. You can also access your machine from i. OS and Android. I tested the i. OS version, which was surprisingly responsive, letting me use touch gestures to control the remote machine. How It Works. To install Go. To. My. PC on the Windows machine that you want to access, you download a setup app that starts Go. To. My. PC running continuously in the background. You can access its features by right clicking on its Taskbar tray icon, but theres no standalone app that you run from the Start Menu. Ball Dance Music Instrumental. The tray icons pop up menu leads to a compact preferences dialog, where you can adjust the apps feature set for high or low bandwidth connections. The same pop up menu lets you send out an email invitation to connect to your machine the invitation works only once and has to be used within ten hours of sending. When the invitee accesses your machine, a dialog pops up asking you if you want to allow them access, and whether you want to grant them keyboard and mouse access to your desktop or only allow viewing. When you want to access your own computer from a remote machinefor example, your laptop while travelingyou dont need to have the full Go. To. My. PC app installed on your laptop. You simply sign in at the Go. To. My. PC site, go to the My Computers page, and click an icon to connect to your machine. The first time you do this, your browser will download and offer to install a small launcher app, which opens the remote machine for access. Foundation Engineering Braja Das Pdf. Youll need to enter the access code for the remote machine that you created when you installed the Go. To. My. PC app on it. After you run the launcher app the first time, it will start up automatically whenever you go to the Go. To. My. PC site and click Connect. When the remote machines desktop is open in the launcher app, you can drag and drop files and folders between the local and remote machines simply by dragging them in or out of the window that displays the remote desktop. The Top Remote Access Software. For my money, Go. To. My. PC has the most useful and usable feature set of any remote control system. Its closest competitor, Log. Me. In, has a more corporate style interface with plenty of options that may be confusing to non technical users. Interestingly, Log. Me. In and Go. To. My. PC recently merged and are part of the same firm, so you can probably expect more and more similarities between them as time goes on. For now, Go. To. My. PC remains the best consumer level remote access program. It doesnt have the enterprise level features or Linux supportor even the free versionthat you get with Team. Viewer, but for simple, secure access to remote machines, Go. To. My. PC gives you everything you need, and, together with Team. Ford Escort Cosworth Motorsport Edition'>Ford Escort Cosworth Motorsport Edition. Viewer, earns our Editors Choice award.