Can you Remote Control Windows PC from iPad?

cheez

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Can you remote control Windows PC from iPad through remote access app? I would like to be able to RDP into Windows PC to access the computer from iPad. Will this work? Anybody tried this?


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Rakehellion

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I did this years ago. I just searched the App Store for "VNC" and downloaded everything that was free.
 

Ichinisan

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Yeah. Did this with my first iOS device (3G at launch in 2008). It was a third-party RDC client.
 
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IndyColtsFan

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I'll be damned... that's impressive. You can even do it from iPhone? yikes...


How would you control say from iPad? Can you get a mouse for this? or is it all done via touchscreen?


thanks,

It is done through the touchscreen. In the apps I've used, you click a mouse icon and then you can drag the point around the screen and click on things. The pointers typically have a small control ring around them and you click a small button on the ring to do a right click. I wouldn't want to do serious work this way, but it is very useful in a pinch.