Short description:

This program is a perfect solution for the boss to view and monitor network users' screens. Thoroughly optimized for speed, and requires minimal or almost no resources because unlike VNC it can be configured to transfer user's screen image in any specified time span. It's a best alternative for VNC and very easy to use.

Newer version 1.2 is available. New functionality includes saving screens in various formats: gif, jpeg. This allows you to save disk space, sometimes the compression is 20 times less than the original size.

Requirenments: Microsoft .net Framework 2.0 is required to be installed on boss and user machines. You can download it here.

Features:

• Concurrently large number of computers can be monitored from the local network
• Times can be changed for automatic regime: check intervals, start and finish times
• Simple and user-friendly interface
• Screenshots can be automatically saved to a specified directory
• This program is totally FREE

Installation instructions:
Download Client & Server programs and extract on users' machines. Server program is installed only on boss' machine.

Run Client.exe and Server.exe on appropriate machines. Set desired directory with Browse... button, and Install. It will unpack the program in the specified directory.

How to use.
If you installed manually:
Run in a desired sequence:
On boss machine: BossControlServerHost.exe.
UI Controls:

• Browse: sets the backup directory where saved screenshots will be placed.
• View: opens Windows' default image viewer to show the chosen screen image.
• Machine names: list of machines on which the Client.exe is running. When a machine name is checked, the automatic regime will be applied to it.
• For aumatic regime: Time interval sets time in HH:MM for how frequently BossControl will store screen images, Start time and Finish time - self explained.
• Start autosave - starts the automatic regime. Stop autosave - stops it before the Finish time.
• View remote monitor: displays what is currently shown on selected in Machine.