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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com in Windows Mobile you can use remote desktop to actually connect to your home computer or your laptop or any computer that's connected and set up properly so that you can control your computer remotely whether you want to control media playback or you want to access a file or you want to check your email or anything like that the procedure is several steps long which is why we made this tutorial video showing you how to go about setting up remote desktop the first thing that we need to do is go to our computer and change some settings in the router so that we can connect to the computer now if you do not have Remote Desktop built into your device I'll post a link on pocketnow.com on how to get to it although a lot of devices now come with remote desktop so so you should have it now if you are over a router you will have to set up port forwarding and it's a multi-step process but it's pretty easy and I'm going to show you how to do that now the first thing you want to do is find out what your local IP addresses and the way that you can do that is quite simply by going to start and if you are on Vista you just type CMD or if you are on XP you go to run and you type CMD and here we will get the kind of das style pop up box you're going to want to type ipconfig right now and press enter and what you're going to get if you scroll up a little bit is your IP for address which is your local IP address so here I am 192 dot 168 net 1.5 and you just want to remember that last number the dot 5 so you close that and then you go into your web browser and then you type the IP address of your router which is pretty much always one ninety two dot one sixty eight dot one dot one and once logged in you want to go to the left side of the screen here where it says port forwarding of course this is for a Netgear router but if you use Linksys or d-link it's going to look some somewhat the same look for where it says port forwarding if you need if you need help getting into your router if you don't know the user may name and password just Google for the default username and password for your particular router usually the username is admin and the password is password unless you've changed it so here we are in port forwarding and I want to add a new service for remote desktop so I'm going to click add service I'm going to put the server IP address as my local IP address so it's 192 dot 168 that 1.5 we're going to call this remote desktop and the starting port will be 3 3 8 9 and the ending port will also be 3 3 8 9 and you are all set with the port ready to be forwarded so that you can use remote desktop so now we're ready to go back to the device alright and it's time to test it out see if it works so what you need to do now is enter where it says computer you put your IP address if you don't know your IP address just go to what is my IP address com it's a several digits long and you just type it right into the box so I'm going to type my IP address and see it work now there is a setting that you want to use that I found to be the most effective you go into options here 256 colors allows the the connection to work the quickest you want to go to fullscreen and you want to have a remote desktop fit to screen so it's actually going to scale your desktop down to the size of your mobile device so in the case of the Touch HD we get an 800 by 480 resolution or if you have VGA device like the touch pro it'll go to 480 by 640 and over in resources you can mute the sound on your desktop computer or you can actually have it come through the device and you can hear audio right on your mobile device ok so here we are connected to my home computer and it works just as if you were sitting right there the visuals aren't very pretty but that's because we have the color scaled down so it works a little faster so we can go in to start we can launch programs as if we were sitting right in front of our computer use word we can open up files read files so pretty cool and actually pretty full functionality which is kind of surprising considering that you know you're using this over your mobile device so that is the tutorial on how to get remote desktop working in Windows Mobile it's a great feature to have and it's great to have it set up so that if you need it one day you have it again I'll post links on pocketnow.com on how to get remotes desk the program if you can't find it on your device as it came from the factory so that is it for now