Re: Remote Access

Bill Martin wrote:

If I were starting from scratch I'd do what you say. However I'm a
loooong way down a road of incremental software development tied to XP
and it's not
worth it to me to throw out and start from scratch. Recreating it
would be a nightmare.

Basically I have an old computer that I can scrap, or it occurred to
me I can isolate it and still use it a few times a year when I rerun
this
program. If someone sold third party software that would let me
control the machine remotely, then I'd be happy to find space for it
in a closet somewhere.

You can run headless XP systems, I believe. You'd have to Google around
for instructions. In any case, you can control it remotely using one of
the flavors of VNC (free). Or you could use a commercial program like
pcAnywhere. If remote control is the main issue, then you really don't
need to mess around with setting up a headless system; you can set up
the old machine as usual and control it remotely from your own
workstation.

Malke
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