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I have windowes XP Home addition can I run remote Desktop
in windows XP home eddition or do I need Windows XP ProF.?
 
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The short answer is you need something other than Remote Desktop to access/control an XP Home box.
One alternative is UltraVNC. Get the server, client and encryption plug-in from...

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
http://home.comcast.net/%7Emsrc4plugin/

If your asking if you can use the Remote Desktop client on an XP Home box to access/control an XP
Pro or Windows Terminal Server, then the answer is yes...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/gomobile/remotedesktop/remoteclient.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/gomobile/remotedesktop/startremote.asp

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<zoemurch20021@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:18f7801c44cb5$f3866800$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>I have windowes XP Home addition can I run remote Desktop
> in windows XP home eddition or do I need Windows XP ProF.?


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