Remote Control, Administration and Monitoring software for home networks

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About Net Control 2 Home Edition

Net Control 2 Home Edition is a simplified version of Net Control 2 Standard Edition. The Home Edition was specially designed for easy management of your home computers via small home local networks. In Net Control 2 Home Edition, we have limited slightly functionality of Net Control 2, removing rarely used in home environment features. But as well as standard version, Net Control 2 Home Edition supports Remote Desktop tool, thumbnail view of user computers, remote messaging and power management. Comparison table of Home and Standard Edition you can find here.

Using Net Control 2 Home Edition, you can control up to 10 user computers simultaneously.

Please note, Home Edition is not intended for use in open networks like Internet, e.g. for remote connection of your office and home computers and without implementing of additional security measures, like VPN networks or secure tunneling.

Most important features of Net Control 2 Home Edition:

1. Remote Desktop features:

Control computers remotely, using mouse and keyboard.
Receive screenshots of user computers.
Send screenshot of administrator’s computer to users.

2. Programs management:

Run programs on remote computer.
Terminate programs executed on remote computer.

3. Power management:

restart, shutdown, wake up remote computer, log off users, switch computers to stand-by and hibernation power consumption modes.

4. Chat and messaging:

Administrator can send text messages, send and display images, play sound files on remote computer.
Users may send requests to Administrator.
Сhat.

5. File management:

allows to perform file operations (copying, deleting, renaming and moving, etc.) on several computers simultaneously (using Commands menu, File Manager is not available in Home Edition).

And also …

locking/unlocking remote computer at any time.
edit sharing of network devices via MS Client interface.
send/receive registry keys.
support of macro commands, batch mode, automatically executed on server commands and other.

System Requirements

Operating system: Microsoft(R) Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP.

For use with Windows 95, Windows Sockets 2 update or Service pack 1 is required. Winsock 2 update (for Windows 95) you can download here.

CPU: Pentium(R) II - 300 MHz or higher (recommended).

Memory (RAM), recommended:
User part (Net Control 2 Server):

16 MB under Windows 95;
32 MB under Windows NT4/98/ME;
64 MB under Windows 2000/XP;

Administrator part (Net Control 2 Client):

32 MB under Windows 95;
64MB under Windows NT4/98/ME;
128 MB under Windows 2000/XP.

LAN: 10/100 Mbit/sec recommended.

Display: Hi-Color (16-bit, 65536 colors) or higher color depth is very recommended.