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How To Use TeamViewer

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Why use TeamViewer?


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TeamViewer is used for remote control, remote desktop, online meetings


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web conferencing, and file transfers


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PART 1
> Downloading > Remote Control > Basic Actions and Functions
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Downloading TeamViewer

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Click any of your browser icons to launch them

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Here, we have 2 options: Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox

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In the address bar, type: teamviewer.com

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and hit Enter

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On the TeamViewer homepage, click the green Download button.

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Wait for the download to finish

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When finished, click the download to launch the installer

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Click Run
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There are 3 available options for running TeamViewer

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Were gonna go through installing TeamViewer in all 3 options


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Option 1
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Select Install if you plan on using TeamViewer often

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Next, select personal/noncommercial use to use TeamViewer for free.

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Click Accept finish


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TeamViewer makes you remote control any computer over the internet
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It must also be installed/ran nd in the 2 computer

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In another computer, download TeamViewer using the same procedure


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Choose any of the 3 options according to your preference


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Lets go through installing TeamViewer by selecting the 3rd option


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Select Run only

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Again, click Acceptfinish to proceed with the installation

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This brings nd the 2 computer to the main TeamViewer window

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Youll see 2 tabs: Remote Control (RC) and Meeting

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Under RC is the Allow Remote Control (ARC) section.


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Under ARC, youll see computer #2s ID and password


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This login information is needed to connect to computer #2


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If the password is unreadable, click the Password Options button.


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Select Create New Random Password


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Lets remotely nd control the 2 computer from st the 1 computer


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On the first computer, click on the RC tab


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In the RC tab is the Control Remote Computer section

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There you can see the Partner ID blank field


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Enter the login ID of nd the 2 computer


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Below it, the Remote Control option is selected by default


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This makes us remotely control nd the 2 computers input devices


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i.e. the keyboard and the mouse


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File transfer, unsurprisingly, is used to just transfer a file


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Now, click the Connect to partner button


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The TeamViewer Authentication window opens

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Enter the password for the remote nd (2 ) computer


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Click Log On
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A new TeamViewer window will open

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Youll see the remote desktop of the remote users computer


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You can now remotely nd control the 2 computer.

Lets try.
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Click on the window showing nd the 2 computers remote desktop

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Click on the Start button

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Type notepad in the search field.


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Click on notepad which appears in the results above

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Notepad launches in your nd remote (2 ) computer

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Type in a phrase or sentence

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Lets now go over some of the basic actions


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and functions that well regularly use with TeamViewer


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Look at the very top of the TeamViewer window

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Thats the TeamViewer toolbar

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Lets take a look at the most commonly used options


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Here are options which helps us control the TeamViewer session

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The Close button closes the TeamViewer application window

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and ends the session

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Click on the Actions menu

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Click Ctrl+Alt+Del to send that signal to the remote computer

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or click Remote reboot for similar actions

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We also have View options,


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Audio/Video options,

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and File Transfer options

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Click File Transfer

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A file transfer window opens

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The Local Computer information is shown on the left


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and the Remote computer info is shown on the right

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To transfer a file from the Local computer to the Remote computer,

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browse to the file that you want to select


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Click to select. Here, its Text.txt


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Select the remote directory. Here its My Documents


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Click Send
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The file is now being transferred to the Remote computer

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We can now see Test.txt


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on the remote My Documents folder

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To receive files, just do the same procedure in reverse


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To work on your Remote computer in Full Screen mode,


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click the Switch to Full Screen Mode button.


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Default Windowed mode

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Full Screen Mode

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Click the same button to return to the Windowed mode

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Lets click the Close button to end the TeamViewer session

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Both computers will receive the Sponsored session message


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A reminder that the software was installed for personal use


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Click OK

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Because we installed it only on Run mode,


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closing the application is like uninstalling it


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Coming Soon:
Part 2 of How To Use TeamViewer
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If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act. -Bill Gates
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