Q&A for How to Use TeamViewer

Just open the Editor on the Remotecomputer and start typing. This is an easy way of chatting between the Host and the Client.

Yes. Any person you grant access to your computer through TeamViewer will have full control over your computer. It will be as though they are sitting at your keyboard

Yes. There's an option to allow a partner to automatically connect whenever they wish. For example, you could do this routinely for elderly relatives who don't want to have to be at the computer when you come in to install updates and fix whatever they break.

Yes. TeamViewer only functions through the internet, so an internet connection is required.

Make sure that you trust your partner. Otherwise, it is extremely easy to load malware very quickly when a TeamViewer session is open. Be careful!

Yes, you can.

Yes. TeamViewer needs to work through the Internet, so an Internet connection is required.

They will be using the TeamViewer server to access your server (the target of the remote access). They will generally have whatever privileges you've given them in the TeamViewer settings and whatever account the TeamViewer is running on, etc. You can increase or decrease the security level to get this access via the TeamViewer settings on the target computer.

On Mac OS you can use force-quit to close the application if doing a higher level quit command does not work. Note that when running version 12 server-target with a version 13 client (this is in Mac OS), you may have to use force-quit on the server side to reset the connection for later v13 connection by a TeamViewer client.

Yes, you can change the password and they will need the current password to log on.