Hey all, Im guessing this may be any easy fix, but for the life of me, I cant find a solution... What I would like to do is use the inbuilt Win7 remote desktop connection to control a remote computer on the LAN - but I want to keep the display on the remote computer. At present as soon as I remote to the other PC, it locks the screen on the remote computer. Basically what I want to do is remote to the HTPC connected to my TV, start a movie or TV show and have it display on the TV, or conversely, if I watching something on the TV from the HTPC I dont want to lose the vision if I remote to it. Both Pc's are using win 7, its a wired LAN and thats about all folks.. Cheers.

I don't think Remote Desktop is going to do what you want, but you might try using the Remote Assistance tool, that might work.-B- http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook

I agree with Ben. You can't do that with Remote Desktop. The remote computer takes over the session. Bill

Thanks Ben, just gave that a go - but its not quite what im after. It works in a fashion, well better than remote desktop anyway, but not quite there. Its almost if I need to be logged into two computers at once, controlling both with no change to the second display. I would've thought that that wouldn't have been too hard to do?

What doesn't Remote Assistance do that you want/need it to do? Well, what about using something like Go2Assist? (http://www.go2assist.com)-B- http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook

Well as far as I understand I need to submit a request for remote assistance from the computer attached to the TV - meaning that I need to leave the terminal that I am at to send the request... sort of negating the whole benefit of remote.... feel free to correct me if I am wrong. I'll have a squiz at Go2assist - that maybe a solution, thanks mate.