So in this thread I was talking about how my mom managed to mess up my old computer. I borrowed a monitor and played around with it this weekend and it turns out it was the HD. So, I put my 250 gig backup drive in, partitioned it to 20 gigs for XP and the rest for files then turned it into a media PC. I have it all setup in my family room but have one issue. I want to password protect it but not sure how that will work if I need to reboot it. There is no monitor and i use remote desktop to control it. Can I remote desktop into the PC if no user has logged on yet? All help is appreciated

 

TightVNC can login without having a user logged in. I admin my mom's pc that way. Just make sure to set it to start as a service.

 

Thanks. I have been using logmein free which is good for what it is, but need something better. How much is it?

 

How much is TightVNC? Free.

http://www.tightvnc.com/
http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html

Download it here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/v...p.exe?download

 

You guys impress me.

 

So I installed it on both computers (via logmein) and I have one big issue. I cannot connect to the media server from my laptop, but if I run the viewer in listen mode on my laptop, I can open a connection from the media server (find client). Any ideas?

 

Sounds like the server/service isn't running on the media server.

 

Nope, I started it when I installed the VNC.

 

I have a tower with motherboard, processor, and junk sitting in my basement getting no use.

 

give it use!`