# Recommend some PC remote access software **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 24, 2023, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-pc-remote-access-software/993604 "2023-11-24T05:20:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2023, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-pc-remote-access-software/993604/6 "2023-11-24T12:29:41Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I use Teamviewer to connect to my mother’s computer to help her out. It requires her to read the passcode to me to permit the connection and it can take a minute for her to understand that bit. I asked this same question for the same reason 3 years ago and got some excellent replies that the OP might get value from. Note who answered first last time too: > [@Recommend Remote Control Software for Windows 7/10 PCs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-remote-control-software-for-windows-7-10-pcs/923209): > > Hi folks - I’m a former IT guy. But it’s been a few years. I run Win10 Home on all my gear. I am the tech support for my 95yo MIL. She has a PC with Win7Pro that she gets along with OK. Her fading memory / mental capacity is such that she could never adapt to a newer OS; it would simply be all new and totally unusable every day. But she can get along OK with what she’s got; emailing, buying stuff at a couple familiar websites, checking the weather, playing her games, etc. Until she does so… The consensus then was Teamviewer, and it worked very well for me. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-pc-remote-access-software/993604)._