One of the limitation with the build-in Windows RDP is that users aren’t able to remote control a computer concurrently simultaneously while another user has already logged in. Of course all the VNC based remote desktop here and here could solve
To clarify first, this Chrome extension is a remote control software that has nothing to do with Remote Desktop Protocol widely used in Windows. It should have been named Chrome Remote Control, rather than a confuse name like Remote Desktop.
Say you have more than few computers running in a local network. And if you don’t feel like running around to turning off each computer manually you can always remotely shutdown / restart / sleep a computer in your local
If you don’t know what RDP is, you probably had missed a great feature all years long since Windows XP. Yes, it’s a protocol that allows you remote control and manage your pc that runs XP or later, and it’s