TeamViewer FTW

Easy to use UI - Need to know just the ID of the person at the other end

One of the common tasks of geeks these days is to enlighten people around them, who are not that tech-saavy, to share a few tips with them. It becomes a day-to-day task when the people you are trying to educate are your parents; you get to see them ask some interesting questions every day. However, it becomes a problem when you are not living with them, which is the case typically with most of the Indian geek-youth (If I may call the group that), that you need a simple solution to access the remote PC so as to help your parents out with. This is why I love Team Viewer so much; not just because it is free, but because it offers just what one wants.

Very easy-to-use UI makes it all the more compelling solution.

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Its enough we know the ID of the person at the other end. The ID generated is the same across sessions, so it is like knowing the ID one time and saving it. The UI remembers the recently used IDs as well for us. The password that the UI generates keeps changes on a session basis. However, we could tweak it slightly and setup any password of our choice so that we could easily connect to remote-pcs knowing user ID and password before hand. Caveat: I could set up this non-secure access only on Windows OS version of the software. I am not able to do the same on my macbook pro running OS X 10.6.8