Windows Remote Desktop for MacBooks
 

Hi All,

Looking for advice on a better solution for accessing my office PC from a MacBook or from an iMac at home. I have been using a PC at home and ThinkPad on the road with Windows Remote Desktop and Terminal Services at work up to now. I just bought an iMac for home and thinking of a MacBook of some kind on the road. Microsoft has a free Remote Desktop downoad for Mac and it works OK but opens in a small window and coupled with the AppleMouse which seems to require more real estate than the PC mouse, it seems to be more of a hassle to access my work PC than it was with all-PC products.

So a new Apple user would appreciate any suggestions for other software, etc. Ideally this would be Remote Desktop type of software because I think it is going to be a big issue to go to our IT people and tell them I want to access my computer at work via something other than Terminal Services/Remote Desktop Services.

Allan F

Why don't you just change the preferences to open fullscreen? I use remote desktop all day for work and it's fine for me.

I use the same mouse as the mouse attached to my PC so I don't understand what you mean by the Apple Mouse taking up more realestate than the PC mouse.

I'll echo Tummy's suggestion to change the connection preferences for the connection (I believe that MS still defaults to 640x480 for some ridiculous reason) to get a bigger window.

Other than that, I don't think that there are many other remote control tools out there that would do you much better.