Originally posted by: jameswhite1979
TIGHT NVC is good been around for a long tine and is free for basic which should just what you require.
again, not true. et me give you an example:
My home machine runs on a 1600x1200 LCD, so that's its defau;t desktop size.
My laptop only has a 1024x768 screen. If I remote into my home machine from my laptop, Windows desktop will resize the remote ("virtual") desktop to 1024x7678: no need to scroll to access the task bar or the menu, everything gets resized.
If I run VNC, I get a 1024x768 window into a 1600x1200 desktop, which involves constant scrolling to see the part of the desktop I want.
Some people may not like the resizing that occurs, but to me it is the most important feature of Remote Desktop.
Also, Remote Desktop uses windows remote procedures, or somethign like that, so when you open a window only the info about the size of the window, its location, etc... is sent to the client. This is very obvious if you run a linux client for example, at least older client will make your XP windows look like they are NT windows. The advantage of this method is that you have to send less information between the client nad the server, some remote desktop tends to be faster. It's also why you can have the remote have a different size than the original dekstop.
All flavors of VNC on the other hand send (compressed) pictures of your screen (well, only the parts that change) and has a higher bandwidth requirement, and uses more resources on the server.
I use VNC on my linux machine, and it's quite good for what it does, but it's not a replacement for windows remote desktop.