While waiting for your Raspberry Pi to finish booting, download and install the VNC Viewer on your laptop. This app will display the board's desktop environment on your Windows or Mac.

For cross-platform remote administration between Windows and Linux, Jack Wallen shows you how to set up TightVNC for connecting both ways.

You do not need to set up port forwarding or IP addresses on your own either, VNC Connect handles all that using a cloud service with end-to-end encryption.

Leopard simplifies screen sharing to an insane degree. Here's all you need to do to set it up: Open System Preferences > Sharing, and then check Screen Sharing. Click Computer Settings, check the ...

If you have an existing RealVNC account and you're set up with the latest version of the desktop server, simply update the Android app and log in to access your remote computers as normal.

If it's even possible to use VNC over dial-up, I remember it being slow over my lan. Of course if you know of a better program to remote control a WinXP(99% sure it's Home) machine then please let ...