Sometimes you need to connect to your desktop from a remote location in order to access files or data on your main computer. Many of you pay Citrix and do this with GoToMyPC. Others use Microsoft Remote Desktop from within Windows.
IMHO, the easiest, and cheapest, way to do it is with LogMeIn Free, however.
I installed it, and it works just like GoToMyPC.
I did hit one stumbling block, however, because I’m using Window 7 RC (release candidate) on several of my computers.
There’s a trick to logging in. You have to specify the name of the computer as well as the login when you’re logging on (and the password, as well).
Here are the instructions from LogMeIn support:
If you are using a Windows account username and password to access your Windows 7 host computer, you will need to enter the username in the format that includes the computer or domain name.
For example:
- You normally log into your host computer with the username
Davidand you are not on a domain. - Your host computer’s name is
HomePC. - When connecting to the host computer, you would enter
HomePC\Davidfor the username.
If you don’t know what your host computer name is, you can easily find out by going to that computer, clicking Start/<right click> Computer/look under “computer name.” That’s the name that is equivalent to HomePC in the example above. You can find your name by clicking start and looking under the icon in the upper right of the Start pull-down. You know your password already, because you logged in 
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Hope this helps out. It took me a while to figure it out (Googling and such), but the best answer came straight from the support folks at Logmein, who were nice, personable and helpful, btw.
Enjoy!
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Jcreason
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Carl
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RPMcIsaac
