RDP is fine, but Teamviewer, and a few of the others, are more "idiot proof." I mean, they don't require you opening or NAT'ting ports through your (or your parent's) router(s) to get it to work. If you need to do "casual support" of say, your mom's desktop, and your dad's laptop, at the same house, you have to put to…

...ready to be fixed, right out of the box. ;)

I use Teamviewer fairly religiously. If you're looking for a "one controls many" solution, this is it. I do a lot of "Family support," so, I have about 8 computers in my list that I can hop into from my tablet, Galaxy S3, laptop, or desktop. The really handy tool is the tablet/smartphone interface. I've been able to…

I worked for a consulting firm at the turn of the millennium. I went to a client site because their computer was locking regularly every 30 minutes or so. When I got there I went to slide it out from under the desk and the whole thing was warm to the touch, like portable heater warm. I pulled it up onto the desk and…

"Flying window" + E. Opens up Windows Explorer.

Has anyone else had horrible track records with Seagate Hard drives? I worked for a corporation in a tech support team for 7000ish users, and we had a heavily skewed early death rate on Seagate drives in our laptops and desktops (90% Dell inventory). I have stayed away from them for personal use because of it.

It may be a run-on, but that is the way a stream of consciousness is supposed to go.

Probably one of my favorite keyboards to use. I miss the one I had at my old job.

What are you using to share the keyboard / mouse between the two?

Work. All of it runs off a Dell Latitude e6530. Windows 7. I could use one more....

Micronauts!!!