remote dektop\movie maker

[Guest]

Does anyone know how to get MM to work over remote desktop connection?
The CPU at work has 4 gb. of ram and i would like to work from home

 

[print_maker]

I don't think remote desktop has a good enough refresh rate to do editing.
I'm not sure the preview would work at all.

 

[Guest]

I tried to do this once and I got an error stating that Movie Maker 2 was
only for the XP family. I think Microsoft wants to prevent you from cheating
to get the XP benefits on a non-XP system. If you connected to your computer
from another one also running XP, however, you may be allowed to do it. You
would also need a large bandwith to carry all the data. I would get an XP
computer if you really must work at home because its just not worth the
trouble.

 

[Rehan]

No Movie maker does not work through Remote Desktop. XP or not.

I think this limitation is an unnecessary one. If MM was not able to show
preview due to bandwidth, then why not just let it do that... i.e. not show
preview.

I use MM in a way where i am not interested in preview most of the times. I
have a fast computer in the loft and a slow laptop to carry around the
hosue. I do most of the computing intensive work through remote desktop on
the power horse in the loft. but MM doesnt fit into this model. sigh.

I now use TightVNC (as an alternative to Remote Desktop) for using MM
remotely.
www.tightvnc.com