I suppose Remote Assistance is used a lot by more technical people to help solve issues on customer’s computers but there are other times when this could be useful to you, maybe you want to help someone out or even enable Remote Assistance so that someone can help you.
The tutorial below will show you how to enable Remote Assistance in Windows Vista, if you want to disable Remote Assistance then I’ll show you that too. At this moment in time I’m not going to jump into all the settings or show you how to send a request for remote assistance, this tutorial will just simply show you how to enable/disable remote access.
Lets enable Remote Assistance
• Click on start (Vista Logo, bottom left)
• Select Control Panel
• Double Click System
• Click Remote Settings in the left hand pane
Now you should be in the System Properties window
• To Enable Remote Assistance, Check the box that says Allow Remote Assistance connections to this computer.
• To Disable Remote Assistance, Un Check the box that says Allow Remote Assistance connections to this computer.
• If you are Disabling Remote Assistance you are done now Click Apply then Click OK
• If you are enabling Remote Assistance Click the Advanced button
• Check the box that says Allow this computer to be controlled remotely
• Click Ok
• Click Apply
• Click Ok
That’s really all there is to it, I’m not going to go into Invitations at the moment I’ll leave that for another tutorial, I just wanted to show you how to enable and disable Remote Assistance. When I add a tutorial on Invitations I’ll add a link at the bottom of this post so people can progress after enabling Remote Assistance.
