How to control your computer from Android with the new Chrome Remote Desktop app

The new app for Chrome Remote Desktop, published by GoogleA few days ago, it offers another alternative for all those who want to connect their computer to a mobile phone with the Android The great advantage of this new application is that, Being the property of Google, it offers a much easier process when connecting the computer with the mobile.Below we explain what the Chrome Remote Desktop application consists of and how we can start using it from our smartphone to have access to the computer desktop wherever we go.

Before starting, it is important that we have the Chrome browser on our computer, since one of the requirements of this tutorial is to install an official extension for this browser. In addition to this small detail, it is enough that we have a terminal with the operating system Android and a connection to Internet to get the most out of the new Google app

How to control your computer from Android with Google Remote Desktop

Google Remote Desktop is an application that allows us to control the entire desktop of the computer from the mobile screen, neither more nor less.With this application we can navigate our computer from the palm of our hand, which can be very useful if we need to connect to the computer while away from home or the office. Let's see how to install this application to start using it in a matter of minutes:

1. To start using this application, the first thing we have to do is download the official add-on for Google Remote Desktop To do this, we simply enter in the following link and install the add-on: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desktop/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp?hl=es .
2. When installing the add-on, a tab will open in which we will see all the add-ons installed in our browser. We must select the “Chrome Remote Desktop” add-on and authorize all the permissions that are requested.
3. Afterwards we will see that two options appear on the plugin screen. Click on the option “My computers” (the second option) and then click on the button “Enable remote connections «.
4. We will now be prompted to enter a password -with at least six digits – that we must remember since it will be the password that we use to access the computer from the mobile.
5. Once we have the add-on installed and configured, the next thing to do is install the corresponding application on our mobile with Android The application is available for download completely free of charge from this link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.chromeremotedesktop.
6. We open the application and we will see that at the top of the screen we can select the different email accounts that we have associated with our mobile.We must select the email account with which we have installed the add-on in the computer browser.
7. If we have followed all the steps correctly, we will be able to connect remotely to our computer's desktop.

I got the error "Failed to start the remote access service", what do I do?

Apparently there is a small error that prevents some users from configuring the remote access service. The solution to this problem is very simple, and only requires following these steps:

1. First of all we access the command window of our computer (the window of CMD).
2. Once inside, we write this command: "net localgroup /add Administrators" (without the quotes) and press thekey Enter.
3. We repeat the configuration process that appears in the first part of this tutorial, and in principle we should be able to activate the service correctly.