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I was redownloading my Empire Earth Gold edtion from GOG and some time later Qbittorrent asked access to network private and public, and I could not untick the not recommended part so I canceled it. I did look for a different Empire Earth download and found this website https://empireearth.eu/download/ because I wanted to try Empire Earth: NeoEE However UAC showed unknown so I didn't execute it and didn't risk it. Then qbittorent flagged network to allow access, and it was sus so I checked my programs and features and saw Remote Desktop showing there where it never did before. Luckily I always untick Allow Remote Assistance and Don't allow remote connections, so it didn't do anything. I uninstalled it and windows seemed to restart on its own and do an update and everything went back to normal, checked task manager and no suspicious cpu usage and I uninstalled qbittorent just to be sure. SO, should I be worried. Was someone trying to hack me when I tried to execute EE: NEOEE?

I'm new to managing macOS, and I find that (for some reason) macOS screen share has the tendency to hang after a while. When I type `w`, I see the same person's session showing up multiple times. It's like they're not logging out, but every time they connect, it creates a whole new session. Even if they're having trouble connecting, I see them as someone who's logged in, based on the time they logged in. Is there a limit to number of people that can connect to a Mac Pro at the same time? How can I kill a person's session completely without killing other's sessions?

I want to access my Laptop from my Phone, to do quick tasks, but I don't want anyone, especially guests, prying on the screen when i'm not physically near my laptop. Which remote desktop app and/or display off app to use so that I can do that? If it was a monitor I would have turned it off, but I can't. If I manually turn screen off using the power button, it just turns on when I move the mouse virtually, and closing the lid freezes the laptop even tho I've set it to "do nothing". Thanks

Hello Everyone, I have a small Business Running in India, I am looking to build a new server, where I need to deploy around 10-15 RDS Clients running an accounting software whose each open instance takes up quite a bit of ram and processing power (about 500 MB of ram each instance and about 5-10% CPU Resources), Each Client Will be opening about 2-3 instances of this Software, the Data stored in the server would not be more than 4-6 TB at max and most of the data would be the accounting software. I am in need to build a server with redundant storage , ECC memory , and possibly Rackmount. Also Please Suggest if Dual Processors can be Beneficial. My budget is around 3000$. Current Server Specifications : Processor : Intel Xeon E3 1225 V5 (3.3 GHZ) Ram : 8 GB DDR3 OS : Windows 7 Pro My suggestions for the New Server : Processor : Intel Xeon E5 2630 V4 Ram : 64 GB DDR4 ECC OS : Windows Server 2016 Please Help ! and Correct me if I am wrong for my new server suggestions. Thank you very much.

Hi, Due to mild/medium electrohypersensitivity (EHS) I decided to use my heavy music production PC remotely via Ethernet to reduce exposure. The DAW I use is Cubase, operating system is windows 11 my workstation desktop. I have two homes, so I could run my desktop remotely from a light laptop or desktop in the other one via ethernet. For me, audio latency and quality should be as unaffected as possible, lossless audio is very important for recording and also playback. A Focusrite Scarlett Solo interface is the interface I use, 2 channels in, 2 channels out. For input, it's important to have 24 bit audio (since I'm using effects on top of my recordings), for output, 16 bit is enough. Lossless quality is more important than latency, since my interface has direct monitoring and I can set up a latency correction in my DAW. I don't mind a few frames of lag, only having 30fps nor some visual artifacts for this purpose. Also, will my internet be fast enough? Download speed is 90 mb/s upload speed is 17 mb/s. Occasionally I also use my PC for strategy gaming, so I should be able to switch to something like Parsec for this purpose. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

I would like to have my gaming rig in a closet and game on it while in my living room. I was inspired by Linus' home gaming setup and was thinking about my options. Budget is not an issue but rather that I'm more or less stuck with cat 7. I live in a rented apartment so I'd rather try to work with what I have instead of pulling new cables. I have one ethernet line from my closet to my living room. What are my options to have a gaming server (probably a beefy computer with unraid similar to this setup) to which I can remotely (within the same LAN) connect and play games? As far as I see it, I either use Linus' approach and pull new cables (fiber optics, display port etc.) such that on the receiving end I only have my monitors and peripherals or I use my existing Ethernet cables that connect the gaming server with some type of NUC/barebones build and then remote desktop to it. Are there any other options that I'm missing? I have a feeling remote desktop is not going to give me the performance I want. I currently have a Samsung G9 and an ROG PG348Q hooked up to my gaming rig together with a boatload of peripherals. Not sure how a NUC would handle that with gsync and all. Basically I'm wondering if there is some kind of extender/adapter that takes display and usb input and routes it via ethernet so that I can connect natively my displays and peripherals over ethernet? Similar to what Linus did with thunderbolt (apparently he wasn't too happy with it in the end)

Hello there! I am currently in possession of a somewhat old Hackintosh (i5 4400, 16GB DDR3, RX 550, 4,5 TB) and I was thinking about making a Linux based game streaming platform. Here's the story: I'm an audio engineer and for several reasons I need Mac OS as my daily driver and I also do a lot of gaming on my machine, but as we all know: MacOS isn't really intended for that purpose, and the only options that I have are: running games through Crossover (some of them work and the rest sucks) or use Parallels Desktop and boot a Windows VM (If you think an RX 550 isn't performant you should see it try to lift a game on a Windows VM, it won't even open heavy games that I was able to run in the past using Windows [Hitman 2 being one of them]). Now, I know what you're thinking: "I'm struggling to see your point and also, what the hell does any of that previos junk has to do with making your own Game Streaming Platform? By the way, Why would you want Linux? Just get Parsec, a Windows key and off you go." The thing is: I'm about to get an old intel Mac mini in the upcoming future, so having the Hackintosh won't make sense, and while Windows and Parsec is a good combo; I've been using Linux and MacOS for about 2 years and It's a combination that I love (besides that I'm really in favor of the Open-Source and Free Software philosophy) And while I'm aware that Linux isn't for everyone and it's not at the point where it can replace Windows in gaming: I feel like stop using Linux and switching back to Windows won't help me to support the aforementioned philosophy. It's more about moral (I'm speaking only for myself and I don't consider any OS inferior or superior nor their users [talking to you Linux elitists]). Like I said before: I'm an audio engineer ( and guess what: we're not even real engineers) not a developer nor a software engineer (or computer professional in any sort of the matter for that case) but I'm more of an enthusiast. I've been reading about SSH and remote management, and I feel that the only thing I would need (If I'm not mistaken) is graphics acceleration and low-latency input/video streaming on the Remote Desktop client and host. Maybe it is because this idea is dumb or extremely difficult to take on. The fact that Parsec on Linux doesn't support hosting isn't very encouraging either, but I know Stadia uses Linux and so does GeForce Now (If I'm not mistaken), so is it possible for a single user sitting in their bedroom with sparing computers can make possible or is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide no escape from reality. JK, in all seriousness tho, can you reading this provide help or guidance on the matter to make this possible? If you can: leave a comment and let us know how! and if you can't: Thanks for taking the time to read this wether you're interested or not, you're great! PS: I apologise for any typo or grammatical error as English is not my mother language.

Hello windows experts, I need some help with trouble shooting steps for Windows Remote Desktop. Got myself a new boot drive on my gaming PC, install W10 Pro fresh and am now trying to activate remote desktop. I've checked the box in Settings to activate Remote Desktop (as described here) and added my user to the group of users allowed to access the PC. However, I get a "username/password wrong" error whenever I try to log in from my Mac using the official RDP client. If this were macOS or Linux, I know exactly which logs to check but for Windows I have no clue. I went to the log file mentioned here but nothing obvious stood out. I'm not sure where I'm looking in the wrong place, or just missing some important info. I'm very used to have grep and sed to help me parse logs and I'm missing them a lot right now. So here's my some basic info about my setup and I'm hoping someone can say "go to the log $here, and there you'll find the error message/number you need to google". I've tried with PCNAME\maplepants / $localaccountpw and with my Microsoft account. Neither work. Account setup: Initially setup as a local account, then converted to Microsoft account (I read somewhere that this is the "correct" way to set stuff up) Users who can access remote desktop: Me specifically, admin users generally Windows version: W10 Pro Network: I can ping the PC from other devices, and I'm able to log into the Mac from the Win PC. I can add any info you need.

Recently, I have been experiencing issues when trying to use Remote Desktop to connect to my computer: After rebooting the system, everything works fine - I can log in remotely or locally on the computer without any issues. The problem is that after "choosing" one option, I cannot switch to the other. So for example if I first log in locally, any attempt to connect via RDP will result in a black screen, followed by the session being terminated shortly afterwards. The same is true the other way around: If I first log in remotely, I cannot get the screen to light up again locally. My system: CPU: i7-8700k, stock settings GPU: RTX 3080 (ASUS TUF Gaming 10GB), driver version 511.65 ([Edit] Now updated to 511.79 [/Edit]) Monitor: Samsung Odyssey Neo G9, connected via DP, 240Hz, 10bit HDR, G-Sync enabled (for fullscreen) MB: MSI Z370-A Pro, Bios 7B48v2C PSU: Seasonic Focus GX 850W OS: Windows 10 Pro, 21H2, 19044.1466 Some observations and attempts: Reinstalled the GPU drivers, no success. [Edit] Also tried to uninstall with DDU in Safe mode, didn't help [/Edit] Windows is up-to-date PCIe Link Power State Management is set to Off The issues only appear after the computer was idle for a while - so if e.g. log in remotely while I'm still using it locally, it works fine I did not have any such issues with my previous GPU that I used until December (GTX 770) I don't really want to disable hardware rendering or the WDDM driver for RDP sessions if I don't have to [Edit] Tried disabling both, but the issue still remains [/Edit] "sfc /scannow" and "dism" found no issues The screen is black, but the computer is still working: I can shut it down remotely via the command line, and access file shares etc. When connecting via RDP after a local session, the login screen appears for a split second before everything going black Sometimes (I guess if I wait long enough for the system to realize something's wrong), I get a critical error in the event log (ID 10111): Any suggestions?

Hi All, Looking for troubleshooting suggestions: 3-4 days of the week I remote into work. I'm running into an issue where my connection seems to get laggier and laggier as the weeks go on. I'm down to my last few fps. When I'm at work, the PC runs fine and has great internet connectivity (400 down, 10 up). At home I have good internet (160 down, 35 up). Both are Ethernet connected. My coworkers don't seem to have the same issue. I have tried lowering rdt settings (unchecked all the boxes, lowered color bits, etc). I have tried connecting at every time of day to see if it's a bandwidth issue. Any other suggestions to try? Help is much appreciated.

So i just figured this out while experimenting, thought to share with you all in case it'll be helpful for your case. Could be useful for those who want to resume huge game downloads from remote location. Wake on LAN is used to turn on PC remotely (BUT only from within the network) So this works only within the network. What if you are away from the pc outside the network & want to turn it on. "That too without port forwarding bs.." Things you'll need: 1. Enable wake on LAN feature on your pc from BIOS. 2. Pc need to be connected via LAN with the router. 3. A secondary mobile with wifi & active sim card(to be able to receive call) 4. Automate Android app installed on above mobile 5. Primary mobile (to initiate the process) Steps: 1. Install the Automate Android app on secondary mobile 2. create a flow in it with following steps- - detect a call from primary mobile. (You can set any trigger condition,i found call to be very easy) - send WakeOnLAN packet ( you'll need to configure your network details here) - (optionally) send back an SMS to your primary number with success message - make it circular so it'll keep detecting for further calls 3. Start the flow 4. Call on the secondary mobile from primary 5. Done! Note: You can use TeamViewer to control the pc once it's booted or shut it down if you need. Flow attached for reference. https://imgur.com/a/fL2CTiq

I have a home "server" that is an old OptiPlex that I have plex set up on as well as file sharing and back up. I am trying to access it from my android tablet and it works great when I am connected to my home network. But when I try to connect out side of the network I get a Error code 0x00005f. I have set up my port forward on port 3389 as well as my gateway connection but I keep getting the error? Is there anything that I am missing or need to change? Any and all help is appreciated!

Hi there So, during the pandemic lockdown, I started living with my girlfriend (now wife) and her nephew. And we had one computer that was the best one and I had to find a way to share it with the two of them... It was a 4th gen i5 notebook, but my wife had a much older centrino notebook and our nephew had nothing (I got a Raspberry Pi for him). And I did a research about how I could share my computer in a way that they could have a minimum quality on their machines and stopped on ThinLinc as my solution for remote desktop access. So, we got married, moved to an apartment and bring my old gaming PC from my parent's house. I was always thinking about how I could use ThinLinc to play games remotely... and recently I've found about VirtualGL, which could be used combined with ThinLinc to provide hardware accelerated graphics. Today I've written a tutorial and published a video about how you could use ThinLinc, VirtualGL and SteamLink to play games on a remote machine... The "remote machine" can be your gaming machine on your room that you want to access from your couch, for just simple tasks up to some games. Not every game will work on this setup because VirtualGL only works with OpenGL applications. But at least your machine can be used by more than one user at same time, leaving it as a good performance thin client that you can share with lower performance machines to "improve" their performance So, I'm pasting my tutorial here if you're interested Headless Remote Gaming Machine tutorial - ThinLinc+VirtualGL+Steam Link ThinLinc + VirtualGL + Steam Link: A Headless remote gaming computer accessible from Raspberry Pi and weak machines. TL;DR: Tutorial for installing a remote machine that can play games using the remote GPU power and can be used by other users with some privacy (i.e.: your game is not going to be shown on a remote physical monitor). Reference Video - https://youtu.be/aiLB0-Jbwlw Hi there! I've written the following tutorial because I've seen a lot of people that could benefit from it recently. Also, I'm interested on alternatives for remote gaming on a machine that you have to share with other users and access remotely. During the pandemic isolation, a lot of people started home-office and not everyone was ready to suddenly have the whole family working from home: people didn't have enough computers to share with family, or the computers were slow, or they had to access their office computers from home… So, search for the subject "Remote Access" grew a lot because it was a way to mitigate the need for a more powerful machine at home. By using a remote access application, people could use their computer from home, they could share a single machine with others… But how about gaming? There are some applications that let you run a game on your remote computer, but without some workarounds, the local machine is going to be busy showing the game running on the local monitor and being transmitted to the remote client. Some people create scripts for headless gaming, use dummy plugs, etcetera, but it's not that easy for everyone to accomplish this. In this tutorial, I'm going to present an easy way to headless remote access a Linux machine (that means that your session is not being shown anywhere else), you can share the machine simultaneously with other users (locally or remotely) and, most important, you have GPU acceleration for some applications* (*OpenGL applications). DISCLAIMER: I'm not responsible if you cause any damage to your computer by following this tutorial, neither are the companies behind the software used on it. All the following procedures should be safe to run, but may differ between the distros. If you have a specific question regarding the tools' installation procedures on your distro, maybe their forums will provide you better support. Feel free to ask any question if you have one. So, what do you need? Linux operating system - ThinLinc - https://www.cendio.com - VirtualGL - https://www.virtualgl.org or maybe already on your distro's repository - Steam and Steam Link - https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay - for android, ios, windows, linux… - A computer to access the ThinLinc server - I'm using a Raspberry Pi 2, but it could be almost anything that can run a ThinLinc client. Why do I need it? ThinLinc is a remote desktop application that provides you a full virtual remote session. Some remote desktop applications will just show you the local monitor and interact with a local user. ThinLinc will let you use your remote desktop using a virtual desktop session, I mean, only you are going to see that screen and other users are free to login to the same machine and have their own virtual remote desktop sessions or even a local desktop session if they are physically at the computer. ThinLinc is free for up to 5 simultaneously connected users per domain, so it is enough for me, my family and still have room for more people if I want. I won't get past the free tier. If you need more than 5 concurrent users or would like to use it in large scale, check their website. There are other solutions that work more or less the same way as ThinLinc, but it has been my choice because ThinLinc supports VirtualGL. VirtualGL provides a way to render graphics on the local GPU and send it somewhere else. Most remote desktop applications don't have a way to render 3D graphics on hardware, that's why you can't play on them. ThinLinc is one that can be combined with VirtualGL and provide hardware accelerated graphics. Steam Link is not really necessary, but it's made for remote gaming and will add some features to enhance this remote gaming experience. By combining it to the ThinLinc+VirtualGL, you will be able to get a smoother framerate and also will be able to use controllers. How to get it working? On the remote machine (the one running the games) Install ThinLinc Server and configure it - https://www.cendio.com/thinlinc/download Install VirtualGL and configure it - through your distro repository or https://virtualgl.org Install Steam (recommended) - https://store.steampowered.com On the client machine (the one you are going to use to play the games) Install ThinLinc Client - https://www.cendio.com/thinlinc/download Install Steam Link (optional) - https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay For the remote machine: ThinLinc Server is easy to install: Reference Video 3:29 - Unzip the contents and run the "install-server" and follow instructions. Also refer to their official install guide: https://www.cendio.com/thinlinc/docs/install https://www.cendio.com/resources/docs/tag/ PS: When installing ThinLinc to openSUSE Tumbleweed, I had to do some workarounds because Tumbleweed changed some file locations. Also, my machine was behind NAT and I had to configure the HOST_ALIASES parameter and run a SSH tunnel. The tumbleweed workarounds were mostly symlinks pointing to the correct file locations. Details about how to use HOST_ALIASES and SSH Tunnel here: https://community.thinlinc.com/t/my-personal-thinlinc-use-case-and-some-performance-comparison/173 VirtualGL also is easy to install: on most distros you can find it on the distro's repository. To configure it, run vglserver_config (reference video 10:05).The recommendation is to restrict it only to vglusers group for security reasons, but most of you won't need to restrict it on your personal computers. Refer to the documentation - https://virtualgl.org/vgldoc/2_2_1/ Steam also is pretty simple to install. There's an oficial .deb package at their home page, but most distros have it on their repositories. Also there's a flatpak available. Now on the client machine: ThinLinc Client is simple to install (reference video 1:26). Get the corresponding package at their website and install it. If your remote machine is behind a NAT, you may workaround it by using port forwarding, split DNS, VPN or SSH Tunnel and set up the HOST_ALIASES parameter if needed. I think that the easiest way is to use the SSH Tunnel and set HOST_ALIASES (reference video 4:50). Also you may check ThinLinc Community ot this post here: https://community.thinlinc.com/t/my-personal-thinlinc-use-case-and-some-performance-comparison/173 Steam Link is also pretty simple to install - Get it on their webpage: https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay . In the reference video, the Raspberry Pi 2 is not compatible with Steam Link. So, Steam Link appears at 17:00 when I'm using my smartphone to use both the video streaming and sending controller input, and at 32:02 when I install it to my local computer to be able to play FPS Games using my keyboard/mouse and controller. Now that everything is installed and configured, here's how it works: - You connect to your ThinLinc+VirtualGL server machine and start Steam - You set the "Launch Options" for the OpenGL game that you want to play to: LD_PRELOAD="${LD_PRELOAD#libdlfaker.so:libvglfaker.so:}:libdlfaker.so:libvglfaker.so" %command% (Reference: https://github.com/VirtualGL/virtualgl/issues/25 ) - (Optional) Connect to your remote machine and play using Steam Link; - Run your game and enjoy. And here's a big FAQ: Why don't you just use Steam + Steam Link? Why do I need ThinLinc and VirtualGL? Because by using Steam + Steam Link, the remote machine running Steam is going to display and interact with the Steam Link session… By default, you need that your account is logged on and Steam is running on the remote machine. If you're not logged in your account locally, how could you start steam remotely? How about other local users? Will they be able to use the computer physically while you're using it for Steam gaming? There are some people who worked around it by running a "Headless Steam", but it seemed more difficult to get working. And Headless Steam is going to be a solution to run games, not a complete remote desktop experience. Are there any alternatives? For ThinLinc - yes: an alternative, for example, would be TigerVNC and TurboVNC for example. ThinLinc is based on TigerVNC (they are the maintainers) and TurboVNC has been built with VirtualGL in mind. I think that ThinLinc is a lot easier to set up and will easily work if you can SSH to the remote machine. For VirtualGL - I don't know any other project like it. It would be great if there was a vulkan capable project like it, but I don't know if there is such a project. For Steam Link - I'm not sure how easy it would be to use another solution to cover Steam Link's part in this tutorial. Can I play any Steam games/any hardware accelerated application? No. VirtualGL only works for OpenGL applications Maybe in the future. Can I use a controller? Does this combination work with games that require a mouse? Yes, through Steam Link. ThinLinc can't redirect your controller input to a remote machine (unless you use some local application that translates your controller input to key presses, so I would recommend attaching a controller to Steam Link and use it. For games that need mouse input, especially FPS games, attach keyboard and mouse to the Steam Link. For some reason, FPS games don't get the right mouse input when running remotely, I guess that's because the remote applications don't send the coordinates the way that the game wants… I 've seen a guy using Spice to play remotely and he had the same problem. And it's the same symptoms if you try to use a Wacom as a mouse for FPS games according to a friend. Thanks to: Cendio (for both ThinLinc and TigerVNC) VirtualGL project (for VirtualGL) Valve (for Steam and Steam Link)

Having a Computer, Server, or NAS setup in your home is great for hosting a plethora of applications and services that suit your daily needs. At times though you may wish to access these systems from a remote location. Depending on your choice of OS and how you wish to remotely access your system the software to do so can vary but they all achieve the same goal. This tutorial will cover various types of remote access software that is available on both Windows & GNU/Linux based clients & servers including best security practices and how to implement them. NOTE: The majority of this tutorial is for setting up SSH/SFTP methods of remote access. If you need Remote Desktop methods skip strait to 4.3 - Remote Desktop. Additionally if you would like the extra security of a Client-to-Site VPN checkout my other tutorial How To: Access Remote Systems at Home/Work Securely from Anywhere with Pritunl. This will require changes as to how you setup your router in relation to how you configure your Computer/Server/NAS so comment below if you need help with that. Index 1. Router Setup 2. Generating a Public/Private Key Pair 3. Server Setup 4. Client Software 5. Conclusion

So I would like to have a computer that will be able to run games remotely to another computer. I was thinking on getting a regular gaming gpu until I saw a Nvidia GRID server gpu. It has me wondering would the server gpu be better at remote gaming rather than a regular gaming gpu?

I'm currently building a PC/Server out of a low powered PC to allow overnight upload Videos to Onedrive and Youtube/other video sites. This "server" is currently named "Not-Whonnock" but I've got other names planned. This PC would effectively be running "headless". While I'd be using the built in standard Windows networking tools to allow drive access, but I'd want controlling said PC to trigger upload. The Local internet connection has somewhat poor upload speeds. Said PC is inherited so it's use or trash. So My What remote desktop tools would you recommend? Some requirements: Local Network access is required. Free. Internet access by the "owner" is nice to have. Smartphone/Tablet app access is also nice to have, but not required. Internet access by approved user (me) would be nice, but not required.

Yesterday I discovered the magic of Windows's Desktop Remote Access, which I will use on my crappy old laptop to remote into my desktop at home, so I won't need to use the shitty macs in my school. But I was wondering, Is there a way to set a "whitelist" of devices that are allowed to remote into my desktop so that only my laptop and only my phone have access to it?

Hi everyone, Am hoping to get your help because I'm unsure what happened to my gaming PC recently. I'm using Parsec to remote access my gaming computer which has an i5 6600K, 16gb RAM and a GTX 1650. Everything was working very smoothly until I experimented with Moonlight since I wanted to try it out and compare it with Parsec. I didn't like how Moonlight was performing and removed it from my system. Since then, my games have been running poorly; all games are running slow and sloppy now through Parsec including less demanding game titles. I've tried a few things: Updated my GTX 1650 to the latest drivers Updated Microsoft C++ redistribute to the most current version Tried to rollback to a point in Windows 10; unfortunately I didn't find another point before I installed Moonlight Did a deep scan for viruses and malware and nothing was detected Am completely lost on what happened! Can anyone please provide some assistance? Thanking you in advance.

For the past few days I have been struggling getting a remote desktop viewer application installed that is in the Arch repo rather than the AUR of arch. I'm trying to make it as secured as possible. The server will not be on the internet via port forwarding, it will be in my LAN only. However, I would like a remote desktop viewer to view the server throughout my house. Preferably I'm looking for a solution that also has a Android app so I can view the remote server in my house via my phone. Thank you.

So one of the things I have been fighting for a while is being able to remote access my server running Ubuntu w/GUI without display output. I used to have no issues at all and all the sudden one day things changed. At first and still to this day (been working and failing at this for over a year) I thought it was a driver issue, fixed and reinstalled drivers, I went so far as to completely wipe the server and start fresh during Christmas, I have updated the drivers for the crappy GTX 580 (I think is what is in there) and still. I can only access and use my server if there is a display output attached to the server, otherwise I get what you can see in the video. I have asked numerous professors at my college and not a single one has any freaking clue what could cause this. I found out there are some systems that do not allow access to a display output without outputting that display to a monitor, this wouldnt account for the 6 months I had with no issues though. I have tried TeamViewer and VNC Viewer and no luck with either. Would love any ideas or help. IMG_8390.MOV

Apologies if this is a dumb question and that this is probably a poorly worded question But to give the short version, I'd like to remotely access my desktop over a mobile network, I use a Surface Go 2 as a laptop which its size makes it perfect for my job, but its not that powerful and I'd like to use applications like Blender or Unity during my downtime What I think would be the best solution, is using Windows' RDP function to just remotely access my desktop, but theres an issue of having to be on the same network which a VPN should help provide that functionality Since it would be through my network I know I have to set it up, but I don't know which programs are secure and fast enough to do something like this Or if theres another solution that completely avoids the need for a VPN that would also be appreciated Thank you

I don't like the category of software—or at least the purpose of it—that I'm asking about: is there any remote desktop software that'll show feed of multiple desktops like a security camera feed? It's basically for employee computer monitoring. It's evil to me, but I've been asked to look into it. The reason that I don't mention desktop or employee monitoring by name is because none of the features typically defining such software is required. Here, the employer only wants to literally watch the activity on computers, to zoom in to specific ones as desired, but otherwise nothing has been asked in way of key-press, activity duration, etc monitoring. I'm thinking something like AnyDesk or even rudimentary VNC can be used to provide the feed, but not display all of them at once. Any ideas to throw around? P.S. Remote desktop client-side will be running on macOS.

I have a windows PC I usually use to game when Im home, and a Mac for school. Every now and then when I'm not home I like to play games, and recently tried the Microsoft Remote Desktop client. It works well enough for what it is, except when I go to play games (Minecraft Java and GTA V are what I tried), the mouse starts having issues. In Minecraft, the mouse seems accellerated beyond control, and only looks down, and in GTA V there are similar issues with uncontrollable acceleration issues with the mouse. When I'm on the desktop, these issues don't exist. The mouse works fine on edge, the desktop, and other non game apps. Any idea what could be the issue and/or causing it? Thanks!

Hey there! Now, I know even Linus has already done this a long time ago, but what I need to do is perhaps a tad bit different (and everywhere I search explains what Linus did, and not what I need) See, my sister is in need of a more powerful computer than her laptop and my gaming PC should do the cut, however, I still wanna keep using it. I want to have either a virtual machine, a secondary user, or something along the lines, running in the background of my PC, and have her laptop remotely connect to it as I use my PC at the same time. I can't really do what Linus did because I don't have a second monitor to spare (for the record I do have a two monitor setup, but I'm keeping it for myself since it's a very old 4:3 monitor and my sister doesn't like it lol) and I don't got another pair of mouse and keyboard laying around, so her laptop have to be the peripherals and monitor. Is it possible? How could I achieve this? Note that I won't be doing anything power intensive so my hardware should be able to handle it. Unless it's a virtual machine, but I don't know much about that, hence why I'm asking. Help would be greatly appreciated!! Any and all solutions/responses are welcome.

Hi. In Win10 I have 2 virtual desktops and I switch between them winth Win+Ctrl+Cursor Right/Left Now, on one of the 2 Virtual Desktops I open a Remote Desktop (RD) session running in full screen. From now on It captures (almost) all the hotkeys. The question that I have is whether Is it possible to send the Win+Ctrl+Cursor from the RD to the host so it would switch the virtual desktop to another one? I have the setting for the Keyboard "Only when using the full screen", since I do want to use the hotkeys in the RD session. What I need is a trick to send just Win+Ctrl+Cursor when I need to go back to the host without going extra steps of minimizing the RD session. Thanks!