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Saturday 30 June 2012

How to use Join.me to share your Desktop with another person

If you need to share your Desktop with another person for a training session for example, you can do so easily and quickly with Join.me

Go to https://join.me

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Open Internet Explorer and then go to the site https://join.me from here you can see the Join Me page. Click on the basic option in the share section. Then click the orange arrow.

Install Join.me

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To be able to share your desktop you need to run the Join.me application, this is a one time install. Click run.

Installing

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The Join.me application will now install.

Up and running

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Once installed you will see a message to tell you that can now share your desktop. Note the 9 digit code at the top of the screen in the format xxx-xxx-xxx

At the screen of the person who you want to share with

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Contact the person you want to share with and ask them to visit https://join.me and enter your 9 digit code into the Join section and then click the green arrow.

Vistor joins

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You will now see a message to say the other person has joined, they can now see your desktop but they cannot interact with you until you give them permission.

Give the visitor access

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Click on the Person icon and below a small window opens, click on the icon of the mouse and you can share your desktop with the visitor.

Visitor has access

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You have now given the visitor access to your desktop and then are able to move your mouse and interact.

Complete session

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When you have finished your session and you want to take control of your desktop back, click on the Mouse icon with the X

Revoke access

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Choose yes to disconnect the visitor.

Finish Join.me session

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Finally to close your session, click on the X to close the application and remember to remove the check for keeping Join.me on the desktop.

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