Hi,
As UnswoleLilDude has stated, the home versions of Vista do not support
being a host for Remote Desktop. You can use one of the mentioned
alternative products (both should work fine), or upgrade the system you want
to have act as a host using Anytime Upgrade:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro.../overview.mspx
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts
http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
"Joe Roux" <JoeRoux@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have two machines running Vista now. My laptop has Home Premium and my
> desktop now has Home Basic. I really do like this OS.
>
> But, not having the ability to connect to my desktop as I did with XP is a
> real problem. Does Microsoft have plans or intentions to allow a patch
> for
> this? I'm not pleased at this one piece being missing from the system.
> Everything else is exactly what I need.
>
> Joe
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