LapLink MN-LGD011-XX-US manual Why LapLink Gold?, Suppose you work at home

Why LapLink Gold?

LapLink Gold Corporate gives you the freedom to leave the office without giving up access to your office computer and network resources. Whether you’re traveling on business or working from home, you can still read your e-mail, share the latest files with coworkers, access network programs and databases, browse the Internet and collaborate with colleagues. Things you once could do only in the office you can now do remotely.

Suppose you work at home

Instead of joining the morning rush-hour traffic, you sit down at your home computer, connect to your office, and begin your workday as usual, by tackling your e-mail.

While finishing your orange juice, you read your messages, write new ones, send replies—in other words, you operate much as you would in the office. You’re using LapLink Gold. In particular, you’re using Remote Control, one of the LapLink Gold services, to operate your office computer from home.

On your home monitor you see what you would have seen had you commuted to work, and you operate your e-mail program as you would have from the office. You can even set up LapLink Gold to print to your home printer for those messages you’ll review later.

Forget to get the latest copy of a file before leaving the office? Use File Transfer, another LapLink Gold service, and drag the file from the folder on the office network to its loca- tion on your hard drive at home. Since you’re updating a file already on your home computer, the file is transferred almost before you know it. (In fact, LapLink Gold merely updates the file, transferring only the parts that have changed.)

Use Remote Control to start a network application and access the company’s huge product database. Just as you thought, customers ordered more blue widgets last month

than during the previous two months combined! More grist for the quarterly report you’re working on.

A final check of your e-mail confirms your suspicions. It’s off to Chicago tomorrow for a two-day business trip.

Suppose you’re on a business trip

Settling into your hotel room, you notice the card on the desk offering internet connectivity. That’s all you need to know; all you have to do now is use the hotel’s internet con- nection to connect to the internet, then open a LapLink Gold connection to get access to your desktop, or to others.

It’s been a busy day. You rush through your e-mail, finishing in time to connect to a coworker’s computer. Her e-mail sounded desperate: if you’re free before 7 o’clock this evening, could you help with the cover art for the annual report?

Now you’re looking at her monitor and talking to her at the same time, using another LapLink Gold service, Voice Chat. After some discussion, the two of you agree: make the logo larger and reverse the colors. She’ll have a finished draft waiting for you on the network in an hour. And then you can download it using LapLink Gold’s File Transfer service later.

Suppose you manage IT support

Imagine that your phone rings at 11:30 at night. Your CEO is calling, requesting that you help her get her laptop up and

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