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[Michael Pietroforte]

The free Remote Desktop Manager allows you to manage all your remote connections: Microsoft Remote Desktop, Terminal Services, VNC, LogMeIn and Team Viewer, Ftp, SSH, Telnet, VPN and more.

The free version of Remote Desktop Manager is already in the list of free Windows admin tools since 2009. Version 6.0 has been released recently with quite a few new interesting features. Of course, Remote Desktop Manager is fully compatible with Windows 7.

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Remote Desktop Manager is a small application used to manage all your remote connections and virtual machines. Add, edit, delete, share, organize and find your remote connection quickly.



The Standard edition of Remote Desktop Manager is free for personal and commercial usage. Here is a list of all features available in this version:

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[Brito]

This is not a bad tool. They make available a version that requires no install.

What I like is that I can keep at hand my SSH and VNC connections under a click.

The initial look is a bit cluttered, clicking on View -> Layout -> Dashboard will disable the dashboard and make it look simpler.

[MedEvil]

Nuno, does it require Dot.Net?

[Brito]

Yep, it runs using .NET (why do people need it for something like this..)

If you're thinking about including on the NaughtyPE then I'd perhaps suggest to look on nuhi's nlite slimsized distribution of dot net to keep it small.


I thought the tool came with built-in support for all those protocols but it is only a wrapper between the typical tools to make them reachable from one place.

I've now added FTP as well, one click and opens. The only downside is using windows FTP. Tried uploading a 1.2Gb file and crashed several times. I guess there's a filezilla plugin that can later be tried as well.

In overall I still think it's a nice tool.

[MedEvil]

Dot.Net is already a deal killer, but for just a simple wrapper? Who needs a xxMB big wrapper for anything?

In my experience, dependency of a tool on dot.net, is a clear indicator of crapware. Mostly not worth using and definitly not worth buying.

[Brito]

To be honest, I don't like it either. But it is hard to find good quality and updated compilers for Windows that are not based upon .NET

This a big matter in organizations and corporations around the world who need tools that integrate better with their workstations and .NET allows to share a lot of resources. It is certainly an overkill to push .NET at a program that doesn't push its advantages on the table.

But when you come to think about it, there aren't many other options available.

Programmers are at ease with .NET Visual Studio when compared to other compilers for Windows (documentation, support, code base, corporate buy-in, experience, cohesion, ...)

In the long run, it is easier to find people working on .NET to maintain programs than finding people willing to code in Win32.

Given this scenario and considering the future, I opted by Java.


This helps to break out of the lock-in that is imposed with .NET

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLO1djacsfg