How To Remote Control PC With OneDrive

This week is likely the peak of cloud storage service competition with the arrival of Google Drive after a long time of expectation. Microsoft, meanwhile, for the first time, released OneDrive app for PC, Mac, iOS and Windows Phone, and their main competitor Dropbox has significantly upgraded their service with various noticeable features. It seems that you no longer worry about the storage space, synchronization capacity or app for PC or mobile platform when almost cloud storage services are now offering these must-have feature. The storage space that OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, SugarSync or iCloud giving free are quite big. You can even get free storage space up to 50 GB at Box or 7GB at OneDrive and 5GB at Google Drive. To be honest, I am not able to be more happy than 22 GB I got at Dropbox.

Choosing a proper cloud storage service is indeed not easy but I think at the moment Dropbox, OneDrive, SugarSync and Google Drive are more preferable ones that the remain, especially for home users like me. As I see, a lot of loyal users and fans are fighting for their choice and the cloud service they gave their trust! In this post, I want to show you up a very handy, compelling feature on OneDrive that may draw your attention for sure. OneDrive can help you remote control the PC with fast speed and secure providing that you have already installed the app on the computer you are trying to access.

In fact, you have to notice that it does not work same as what some actual remote control apps and services as TeamView or Logmein are offering. But thank to OneDrive, you can always take your whole data on your computer on the go. For more exactly, it can be explained like that, whenever you install OneDrive on any computer and login with your account, you can go to OneDrive dashboard via web-based to control all data on these computers. Here are what can do for that purpose.

First, you have to get a Windows Live or Hotmail account. It is free and easy to do. Visit http://live.com and hit the Sign up button. Login at OneDrive. You can also download OneDrive app on here. Just install it as normal! Assuming you are using Windows 7, then there will be a new folder called OneDrive with an icon on the left appearing on your Favorite list, same with Google Drive and Dropbox.

Now, when you login to your OneDrive account, there will be a new PC s name appearing on the left as the image below.

As the image above reveals, I have already installed OneDrive app on two computers: my father one and mine. If I want to control my daddy s PC remotely, I just need to click on Daddy link.

That feature may somehow benefit you. Assuming that you are on the go and want to immediately access your computer at home to get some missing document files on the disk, OneDrive is a great tool. Just make a phone and someone can help you power up the PC. Then login into OneDrive to look for the files and download them easily!

Bear in mind that you have to provide a code that sent to your mobile phone or use alternate email address to pass the two-factor authentication. The process will make sure that you are the real owner the computer or at least the person who has actually installed OneDrive on these computers.

When you are remotely surfing file or folder on a local disk, you have 2 options: download right to the current computer or upload to your OneDrive account. You can easily opt the more convenient ways to use for yourself! The speed is really fast and it works well. I think this feature is an actual remarkable upside from OneDrive. Do you agree with it?

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