e were pleasantly surprised to find a live update utility at the end of the installation that offered to obtain the latest changes to pcAnywhere. The utility found our underlying network connection, accessed pcAnywhere's FTP site, and refreshed our installation with updated files. However, it did not inform us of changes to our base installation taking up more than 30.8 MB.Administrators won't be cringing when it comes time to roll out this product on the network either. pcAnywhere has a custom-configuration utility for network installations. You simply pop in the corporate CD, which gives you a graphical utility to select and manage host and guest options for installations--even silent installations. This utility eliminates the need to master a script file for automatic installations. Both NetOp and ReachOut Enterprise require script files for automatic installations. With pcAnywhere, installing multiple users almost as easy as installing one user.Windows 2000 Professionalo133MHz Pentium or higher processoro64 MB of RAMo30 MB of available hard disk spaceoVGA or higher-resolution monitoroCD-ROM driveWindows Millennium Edition and Windows NT4/98/95oPentium or higher processor150MHz (Pentium or higher processor for ME)o32 MB of RAMo30 MB of available hard disk spaceoVGA or higher-resolution monitoroCD-ROM driveUse as Diagnostic Tool Connect to a remote host PC and its desktop appears in a window on your remote PC. From there, you can launch applications and open files on the host PC just as if you were sitting in front of the computer itself.One of its best features its crisp, clutter free interface. Its four large toolbar icons let you designate your office PC as the host, so you can connect to it remotely or connect with and control another computer. These icons also let you set access options and (for Windows NT/2000 users only) build installation packages that add PcAnywhere to other systems.Although the default connection items allow...
