![]() At the top of its window, you can see a small toolbar with the name of the machine being connected to and additional controls. The app is in full-screen mode, showing the desktop of the connected-to machine. The machine on the right, the remote machine, is running the Remote Desktop Application connected to the machine on the left. On the left is our local machine: a Windows 10 Pro machine on which Remote Desktop has been enabled. Remote Desktop example (click for larger image). One connected and authenticated, the screen of the local computer switches to a login screen, and the current desktop is displayed in the Remote Desktop Application, where it can be used and interacted with as if sitting at the real computer. The remote user must sign in to Windows using an account on the local machine that has Remote Desktop privileges. Given a machine name or IP address, the app makes a connection to the machine being connected to. The remote computer runs the Remote Desktop application. If your edition of Windows supports it (more on that below), you can enable Remote Desktop in Windows 10 by searching for “remote desktop settings” and selecting the option in the resulting dialog. The local computer must have Remote Desktop enabled, and be running the Remote Desktop service, which listens for incoming RDP requests. Remote Desktop (sometimes referred to by the acronym of the underlying protocol, RDP or Remote Desktop Protocol) is best viewed as a way to “take” the screen, keyboard, and mouse of a local computer and use them on a remote computer. Since much of the concern regarding Remote Assistance and Remote Desktop is security-related, we’ll try to keep it simple: the local machine will be the machine in front of you that you want to allow (or deny) someone else - someone remote - the ability to access. ![]() The “remote” computer is a computer somewhere else - perhaps in another room, perhaps in another country. In the discussion below, the “local” computer is the computer you have in front of you. To keep things straight, we should define just what local and remote really mean. Remote Assistance allows you to help or get help from a person and computer located elsewhere while simultaneously watching and interacting with the machine yourself.Remote Desktop allows you to use or “take over” a computer located elsewhere as if you were using its screen, keyboard, and mouse.
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