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The best part of all of this: You can set up the pen-clicker thing to bring up

the Ink Workspace even before you’ve signed in—at the Lock screen.
Finally, a tablet is as useful as a legal pad. You’re getting the phone number
of somebody attractive? Click your pen and start writing, without first
signing in like some kind of nerd.

(All of this, Microsoft says, may also work with other companies’
Bluetooth pens.)

Controlling Your PC, Long Distance

Windows provides several avenues for accessing one PC from another

across the network—or across the internet. If you’re a road warrior armed
with a laptop, you may be delighted by these features. If you’re a corporate
employee who used to think you could escape the office by going home,

you may not.

The three most common scenarios for using these remote access features
are (1) helping someone by viewing their screen remotely, (2) connecting to

your office network from your PC at home, and (3) controlling your home
PC remotely using a laptop.

These pages cover two of those systems of connecting:

Quick Assist. This feature is for troubleshooting or teaching. It lets
you see and take control of someone else’s PC from across the

internet (or lets someone else see and take control of yours). Don’t
get any hackery ideas: The other person must be seated at his
computer, must give you permission, and can watch everything

you do.

Fortunately, Quick Assist is incredibly easy to set up and get going.

Virtual private networking (VPN). In this system, you use the
internet as a secure link between the host and the remote machine.
The remote computer behaves exactly as though it has joined the
network of the host system—usually your company’s network.