Have you ever wondered how you can take all your desktop files and documents anywhere with you? You can always stay in touch with all your files on your Personal Computer without actually taking hard drive of your PC anywhere. This method is simple and can be used by anyone with a Google account and an active internet connection at both remote end and current location from where you want to access your files on your PC.This is the easiest and the fastest way which allows you to take your Desktop virtually everywhere with you. Chrome Remote Desktop is the tool we are talking about. It gives you two major services - Remote Assistance and full PC access over the internet anywhere anytime. This tool is fully cross platformed and can be used from Windows (XP and above), Mac (OS X 10.6 and above), Linux and Chromebook as well. You can connect remotely to your computer for either short term basis or long term basis where you can access files and applications from your remote computer. Here is the full guide that will make you start with this very interesting and useful tool that you would really love to use.
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The app will be added to the list of your Chrome apps from where you can access it anytime. You need similar app on the remote computer also.
Remote assistance
Chrome Remote desktop can be used for remote assistance wherein users can either share their desktop with users they want or can access other's computer also. So simply it is just SHARE or ACCESS. On the app page, if you want to share your desktop with other user then click on the share button under the remote assistance block. It will generate an access code which the user at the other end will be need to get access of your desktop. Give this code to the person with whom you want to share.
At the remote end the other user has to click on the access button under the same block and enter the code given by you. The sharing channel is fully secured as mentioned on the App's page on Chrome Web Store. As mentioned above, this can be used for getting access on both short term and long term basis. You can access files and documents, control applications and much more. We have still not tested it completely and will share its full review when done.
Take your Desktop anywhere with you
This is the feature that make this tool/app totally different from others. It allows you to have access of your personal computers anywhere using Chrome Browser. All you need is an active internet connection and Chrome Remote Desktop app on both locations.
Add computer to the list for which you want remote access to work. Once the computer is added a secure PIN has to be created by you which has to be filled up every time you want to access this computer. PIN is a secure secret sequence of numeric digits which should be remembered by you in order to access the computer from remote location at anytime in future. You need to install Remote Chrome Desktop app on both side in the Chrome Browser. It means, Chrome Browser is the bridge between two connected computers. Also you need to be logged-in on both locations in order to use the app.
Chrome Remote Desktop is a cross platformed tool. It means you can access your Windows computer on any of the computer having Mac, Linux or Chrome OS installed in it. It doesn't matter which Operating System you are currently running on any of your computer. It is simple, secure and easy to use desktop app which allows full sharing of a computer over the internet. Do tell us about your experience when dealing with the app. We would love to hear it from you.
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