Help someone, from your own desk.
A remote desktop program that will allow screen sharing and remote control (only if you allow it) and make life easier to help friends or customers.
Free · No account · Version 6.4.1 · Windows 10 and 11
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Drop the file in and it appears here
What it does
Everything you need to help someone out.
Open it on two PCs. One shares its screen, the other watches. Both PCs can share at once, and up to eight people can watch the same screen.
Share your screen
Pick a monitor and start. Only what actually changed gets sent, so a still desktop costs almost nothing.
Point and draw
Your pointer shows on their screen with your name on it. Draw arrows, circles and freehand marks straight onto their desktop.
Take over when they let you
Ask for their mouse and keyboard. They decide, and if they touch their own mouse they get it back instantly.
Leave written notes
Click anywhere on their screen and type. The note sits there as a speech bubble pointing at the thing you mean.
Hear their sound
Whatever comes out of their speakers can come out of yours, so a video or an error chime is not theirs to describe.
Copy and paste across
Copy something on one PC and paste it on the other. An address, a licence key, an error message worth keeping.
Choose which screens
More than one monitor? Pick which of them the other side may switch to. The one with your email on it can stay yours.
Nothing kept anywhere
No account, no sign in, no cloud. The two PCs talk to each other and that is the whole of it.
A look around
Built to stay out of the way.
Dark, quiet and quick to read, so the screen you are actually there to look at is the thing you notice.
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Drop the file in and it appears here
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Drop the file in and it appears here
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Drop the file in and it appears here
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Drop the file in and it appears here
How to use it
Three steps, both ends.
There is no setup beyond installing it. Nobody signs up for anything.
One of you shares
Press Start sharing. A code appears. Read out the address and the code. That is the whole handover.
The other connects
Type in what they read out and press Connect. Their screen shows up, and your pointer shows up on theirs.
Point, draw, or take over
Point at things and draw on them right away. Need to do it yourself? Ask for control. They say yes, and they can take it back whenever they want.
Docs
Run your own relay.
On one network the two PCs find each other by address. Across the internet they cannot, so both dial out to a relay instead and it puts the two together. Only the relay needs a port opened on its router. Neither of the two PCs does.
Get the two files onto a Linux server
Any small VPS will do. Put install.sh and pointdesk-relay.cpp in the same folder, side by side.
Run the installer
It fetches a compiler if there is none, builds the relay, runs it as its own account with no shell, and opens the port in ufw or firewalld.
Point PointDesk at it
Set sharing to Relay server, put in the address and port, keep the code on. Your nine digit ID appears. Read out the ID and the code; they connect By ID with the same relay.
chmod +x install.sh sudo ./install.sh port 7788 sudo ./install.sh --port 9000 a different port sudo ./install.sh --uninstall take it off again
Relay servers
Ones you can use.
Put one of these in as the relay on both PCs, with the same code, and you can reach each other from anywhere. Or run your own from the Docs above and it is nobody's business but yours.
Download
Get PointDesk
One installer, one program. The same download is both the sharing end and the watching end.
It puts a shortcut on the desktop and that is it. Open it on both PCs and you are ready to go.
- Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit
- 1.3 MB installer
- No account needed
- Free
PointDesk 6.4.1, made by TheOCProductions & ShortGG