Remote Desktop Alternatives to Windows 7 Starter

windows-7 remote-desktop vnc

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Solution 1

If its within the same lan, some flavour of VNC would be a good bet - its not really secure, and is relatively slow, but will work. Some flavours of VNC seem to be faster than others - but you seem aware of this.

other than that, there seem to be very few options - RDP servers arn't found in editions other than pro and better.

Solution 2

I've been using TeamViewer for some time. You can actually disable the option for TeamViewer to log into their system, especially if it's inside a LAN environment.

You can configure it so that it only accepts incoming connections from a LAN IP (e.g. 192.168.1.10) and not from any Internet IPs.

Solution 3

I would use TeamViewer as long as you are not in a commercial environment.

http://www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx

http://www.teamviewer.com/en/products/benefits.aspx (features)

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Pablo Gaviria

Updated on September 18, 2022

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Pablo Gaviria over 1 year

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- Thalys almost 13 years
  
  same lan, or from somewhere else?
- ef2011 almost 13 years
  
  @Journeyman Geek Same LAN.
- afrazier almost 13 years
  
  @ef2011: Why don't they work? Any of them work just fine on any other edition of Windows 7. What makes starter so special?
- ef2011 almost 13 years
  
  @afrazier My question was specifically about Starter and you say they "work just fine on any other edition of Windows 7"???
- afrazier almost 13 years
  
  @ef2011: I have no personal experience with Starter, so I'm asking you why VNC, TeamViewer, or any of the other RDP alternatives won't work. As far as I know, there's no reason it shouldn't.
hicklypups almost 13 years

TeamViewer is plenty fast, especially if on a LAN. After the connection is set up, it is peer to peer. Also, if it is not on a LAN, it does not require any firewall configuration, which can be troublesome for novice users. It is also very lightweight, and there is even a version that can be run instead of installed, so non-admin users can use it even.
ef2011 almost 13 years

Given there is not security issue, which VNC product would you recommend?
ef2011 almost 13 years

I am not really interested in TeamViewer's having access to what I see on my desktop.
hicklypups almost 13 years

@ef2011 They don't...they only facilitate the setup of a peer-to-peer connection, and you can also do it using their VPN option, to make it that much more secure.
Thalys almost 13 years

@ef2011 ultravnc seemed to work reasonably, as did tightvnc. Try to have the fastest network connection you can have tho @Kcotreau: eh, no point in duplicating answers - my reason for mentioning lan with VNC is- I personally would NOT run vnc over WAN.. tho i've had to set it up before for use over one.Its not as secure, or as fast as RDP, but its acceptable for quick, platform agnostic setups, or where nothing else will work.
ef2011 almost 13 years

Thanks. Is this true for the free version as well?
pandie almost 13 years

One of the things I did is that using a VPN setting from teamviewer or Himachi (which I am using - I like the website controls of the VPN in himachi more than teamviewer) and having a static IP. I can control more than just teamviewer but sharing files as it is in a network instead of using teamviewer's file transfer. that helps very nicely since I don't need to open a program just to transfer a file over.