Learn how to use Remote Support with Windows 10 Quick Assist
Windows 10 Quick Assist enables two people to share a computer remotely. The easiest way to find the app is to hit the Windows-Logo key and enter quick assist
Windows Quick Assist App
The Quick Assist App can find in the Windows accessories, they can give assistance and get assistance. The person who would like to provide help clicks on “Give assistance”, then you are asked to log in with the Microsoft account. After logging in, the app generates a security code that can be sent by email or phone.
The six-digit security code is given to the user on the other side, after entering it, the user clicks on “Unlock screen”. The person providing help can choose Full Control or View Screen. Then the remote help expects the consent of the user at the computer to be taken over, which starts the session.
On the support side, the control bar offers other functions in addition to pausing the session. Like customizing your screen so you don’t have to scroll across the desktop. In addition, the Task Manager can be started remotely or messages can be sent, but a file cannot be transferred.
The annotation function, called annotating, allows the backer to draw on the remote screen in one of 6 colors with a pen.
AnyDesk Connect to a computer remotely, The remote maintenance program from the German startup company AnyDesk Software GmbH enables remote access to remote computers. A video codec specially developed for this purpose is supposed to ensure fast transmission of the screen. It is also possible to transfer files between the two PCs. AnyDesk relies on the DeskRT video codec, which was specially designed by the developers for the transmission of graphic user interfaces. Above all, AnyDesk wants to set itself apart from competing remote desktop products such as TeamViewer and co. The program leaves a tidy impression, the address book is available with a license subject to charge.
How to install AnyDesk on Windows
The installation of AnyDesk under Windows is self-explanatory, there is a video from AnyDesk to show the setup and change settings.
How to install AnyDesk on Linux
This article describes how to install AnyDesk version 6 on Linux Mint 20 x64bit. The way to install is nearly the same for all popular Linux distributions.
Download the small AnyDesk file of 3 MB and finish urgent tasks on the go with AnyDesk’s user-friendly interface. AnyDesk are installable for Linux using the debian package manager, it’s goes quick and easy with open a terminal to insert the following lines and run it.
If there are errors due to dependency problems, additional packages must be installed afterwards.
package anydesk that was previously not selected is selected.
(Read Database ... 328284 Files in Folder are now installed.)
Preparing to unzip anydesk_6.1.1-1_amd64.deb ...
Failed to stop anydesk.service: Unit anydesk.service not loaded.
Unpacking from anydesk (6.1.1-1) ...
dpkg: Dependency problems prevent configuration of anydesk:
anydesk depends on libgtkglext1; or:
Packet libgtkglext1 not installed.
anydesk depends on libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0); or
Packet libpango1.0-0 not installed.
dpkg: error processing package anydesk (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23+linuxmint4) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
anydesk
The apt-get option -fix tries to provide the packages required for AnyDesk.
$ sudo apt-get install -f
The AnyDesk installation can then take place.
$ sudo dpkg -i anydesk_6.1.1-1_amd64.deb
Let’s start AnyDesk also with automatic system start.
As AnyDesk announced on July 15, 2019, the binaries in the current AnyDesk version are now in the repositories for the Linux distributions Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, RedHat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and OpenSUSE.
On Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint or other Debian-compatible Linux distributions, open a terminal and switch to root and run the following commands to install the latest version of AnyDesk:
If you use RHEL, CentOS, Fedora or OpenSUSE, open a terminal become root and copy paste one of the following section suitable for your linux distribution to add the repository. Then simply install the latest version of AnyDesk with a yum or dnf command:
