Team Viewer… Ever heard about this name from your friends or your partners at school, college, office?Well,Team viewer is basically a software for remote accessing a computer or a server or a mobile. It can be used to access your partner’s computer from your own computer, right as if you were working on his computer. Obviously, you need to have an internet connection for it.
Features:
- Easy remote access to another computer
- File transfer
- Chatting
- Recording of the session and converting it to a .avi format
- Online meetings
Team Viewer can be used for remote access and for that to happen both the computers should have team viewer installed. In the whole process, the partner is aware about the session and without his agreement, no remote access can be performed. Thus, Team viewer is a legitimate software and not a Trojan.
Team Viewer is free for all non commercial users. You can download Team Viewer for free here.
Note: If you wish to use Team Viewer for commercial reasons, you can buy it here.
Team Viewer can be used in various scenarios. Say, if a boss didn’t take his laptop and he had to show an important project to another guy. He could borrow that guy’s laptop and just ask someone at his office to turn on his laptop and open up team viewer and put the id and password. That’s it. Now the boss can use his own laptop remotely from that guy’s laptop. Assume a situation where in your pc ran into some trouble and you are not able to figure out what the problem is and your friend knows a solution for it. So, you decide to give remote access to your friend.
Note: If you wish to use Team Viewer for commercial reasons, you can buy it here.
Team Viewer can be used in various scenarios. Say, if a boss didn’t take his laptop and he had to show an important project to another guy. He could borrow that guy’s laptop and just ask someone at his office to turn on his laptop and open up team viewer and put the id and password. That’s it. Now the boss can use his own laptop remotely from that guy’s laptop. Assume a situation where in your pc ran into some trouble and you are not able to figure out what the problem is and your friend knows a solution for it. So, you decide to give remote access to your friend.
Let us see how team viewer actually works.
When you open Team viewer, you get a screen like the one shown below. Your friend will also have a similar screen.
- The id and password shown on the left is your id and password. You give this id (in this case 320 952 930) and password (5634) to your friend.
- Your friend now puts this id on his computer (320 952 930) at the right side where we see a field named partner id. After entering the partner id, he checks either of the two options. For our case, say he chose remote control and clicked on connect to partner.
- Now, switch on your pc and the message “ready to connect” will change and tell you that your partner is connecting to your computer.
- At the same time, your partner will be asked to enter the password. Here he enters the password that you gave him (5634).
- After he enters the password correctly, the handshake gets completed and a new window will pop on your friend’s screen which will show the exact same thing as your computer screen is showing. Now your friend can not only see your screen but also he can control your computer. If he moves the cursor on his computer, the cursor moves on your computer too. He can open/close your files/folders and do whatever you can do just as if he was actually using your computer.
- Team viewer also provides features like chat & file transfer .Explore them too.
Thanks for reading.
