Back to the shared monitor thread

Yes. Just the one connection. An up to date display is not out of the question.

Hmm. E-bay purchase pre-sale upgraded W10 to W11

I knew this was going to get tricky!

If you go to Control Panel > System on the Win 10 box it will tell you under "Windows Edition" on the left if it is Pro.

The third party app that enables the server on home editions is rdpwrap:

If the Win 7 box is pro, then that is all that matters.

All versions support using remote desktop on the client end, but only pro versions include the ability to run the server end.

Using VGA is not in itself a problem - you will get a slightly less sharp picture than you might via a digital connection, but it will still likely be good enough.

If your new PC can connect to the existing display, then that is what matters. If it can't then you either need a slightly more exotic lead or adaptor (HDMI to VGA adaptors are under a tenner these days), or as you say an excuse for a screen upgrade.

The win 10 / 11 box is not going to be a problem. It is very unlikely that the 7 box will be either - you have to go a *long* way back to find a PC that does not like being powered up with no keyboard attached. Even if you had one of those, I presume you have a keyboard for both, so leaving the one on the win 7 box plugged in will not cause any problem (so long as the cat does not sit on it!)

(one attribute of RDP is that when you login to a machine remotely, the machine you are remoted into, logs out the local user session - so the picture you see on the machine's own screen would be the login screen, and not the desktop that the remote user is seeing. That is good for privacy in an office - someone can't watch your screen, it also means that them messing with the local mouse or keyboard does not affect the remote user)

In message snipped-for-privacy@news.individual.net>, Jeff Gaines snipped-for-privacy@outlook.com writes

Very likely! Does the installed W11 system impact on this app?

All good news. I have some farm work to get done but will have a go this weekend. Ta!

It seems happy with Win 7 on, I believe it was first written for Win 7 because that didn't even have the RDP client.

Win 7 has RDP... IIRC it was introduced on the server side in Win NT4 server, then on all platforms from Win 2k on - so XP, Vista, Win 7 etc

Bit of a moot point in this situation since the device Tim wants to control is a Win 7 *pro* machine - and that has RDP server as standard. So he has all the bits he needs without installing anything extra.

(To be fair, rdpwrap actually goes further than the standard RDP server on Pro versions of windows, and gives it capabilities more like what was once called "Windows Terminal Sever" on server versions of windows. That lets one machine support multiple concurrent desktop sessions for multiple users.

Was it you who recommended rdpwrap to me?

I had a recommendation for that and a discussion about richedit.dll but didn't keep a note of who the exchange was with.

Possibly - I recall mentioning it in a thread a while back.