J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

Philip Herlihy wrote:

If you want to be able to connect to remote machines without user
intervention
at the far end (so you can't simply use Quick Assist, which is
built-in) then

(to 7, or only recent 10?)

QuickAssist is Win10 only, at both ends, handy though as it's built-in.

install the UVNC server needed on their machine.
An alternative is to open port 5500 at your end

That's what I do, easier for me to deal with portforwarding on my router
and I have fixed IP addresses available, so I just have to talk
friends/relatives through installing VNC at their end, and making the
reverse connection to me.