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Microsoft Windows XP Remote Desktop Connection, Remote Assistance
Wondering what Microsoft Windows XP is doing in this review of sophisticated remote-control software? Windows XP provides some basic remote control features using two applications: Remote Desktop Connection and Remote Assistance. Because it is free with a Windows XP license we compared it to the best to see what it had to offer. And it was, well, the worst.
Remote Desktop and Assistance use the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) 5.1. Hosts are restricted to the Windows XP OS, but clients can be any 16- or 32-bit Windows OS. Remote Desktop/Assistance outperformed Novell, Netopia, TWD-Industries and TridiaVNC in bitmap transfers, but it carried last place in file transfers, hands down. And it weighed in with almost the heaviest memory requirements while dormant on the desktop: 13,968 KB. Novell got the heavyweight award.
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