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Chrome Remote Desktop Extension install screen. This is the software actually enabling remote access to your machine. The first time you click on the download icon in the “Share this screen” section, you’ll be prompted to install “Chrome Remote Desktop”. You can see it now has its own icon in the taskbar. Once you do, you’ll find a shortcut on the Start menu for Chrome Remote Desktop, treating it as a separate app you can run at will. You may be prompted to install the Chrome Remote Desktop app. The rest of this article focuses on this process. To establish the connection, you must be at your computer and the person who will be helping needs to be at theirs. Share my screen allows you to grant temporary access to your computer to someone else.This is not what we’ll be looking at in this article. Only machines signed in to your Google account can access the machine remotely. This allows you to connect to computers of your own remotely with no one present.

Access my computer allows you to set up unattended remote access.

If prompted to do so, sign in to your Google account. Preparing to get helpīegin by visiting in Google Chrome. Both need to be signed in to a Google account.

1īoth computers need to have Google Chrome installed, even if it’s not your day-to-day browser. I use this regularly between different versions of Windows as well as to access my MacPro (currently in my basement).

The other computer belongs to someone qualified to give that help.īoth computers can be any version of Windows or MacOS on which Google Chrome is supported.

They would like the help of someone more knowledgeable.

Perhaps a program is misbehaving or they don’t know how to accomplish a task.

One computer belongs to someone asking for help.

The scenario we’ll discuss here involves two computers: These connections are secure, temporary, and require that individuals be present at both ends. There you can choose to give someone access to your computer by sharing your screen or access someone else’s computer remotely. Use or install Chrome Remote Desktop by visiting.