Some remote control programs can suppress the screen display on the remote machine.

Chrome Remote Desktop has no such options. Competing products can limit the number of colors or suppress the desktop background to speed things up. Very slow.Īnother limitation of Chrome Remote Desktop is the lack of performance tweaks. Given that both machines were wired into the same LAN, I expected good performance. But no, the remote control session remained slow. I have used my fair share of remote control software and response time has not been an issue for years. Other remote control software can scale this up, but that doesn't seem to be an option with Chrome Remote Desktop. The Chromebook has a screen resolution of 1280x800, which looks awfully tiny on a laptop with a much higher resolution. The first test revealed another limitation, the screen resolution. The Windows laptop was also Ethernet connected. So, I disabled Wi-Fi and connected the Chromebook to my LAN via an Ethernet to USB adapter cable. The first time I tried this the Chromebook was using Wi-Fi and it was slow as heck.

This displays a 12 digit number that needs to be entered on the 'controller' machine, in my case a Windows 7 laptop. So, I started a Remote Assistance session by clicking on the green 'Share' button on the Chromebook. The screenshot was taken on a Windows machine, on a Chromebook there is no gray button to 'Enable remote connections'. The difference between them is not at all obvious, but it seems that a Chromebook can not be used with the 'My Computers' approach. Still, even logged on as a Google user, Chrome OS should be much more secure than a desktop OS.Īs seen above, there are two modes of operation for Chrome Remote Desktop Remote Assistance and My Computers. Chrome Remote Desktop is an extension and all extensions are off-limits in Guest mode. But, right off the bat, there is a limitation - you can't remotely control a Guest mode session on a Chromebook.

Chrome remote desktop performance