Mac Remote Desktop?

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Hi everyone,

First time user here and I had one quick question. I am looking for a remote desktop solution that will allow me to connect to my iMac, from a Windows computer.

It needs to have some sort of resolution scaling or something, because I have two 24" monitors set up and trying to use a typical VNC connection with resolutions that high tends to be unmanageable/very slow.

So, is there a remote desktop program that will let me connect to a mac, from a PC that:
1. Doesn't display the second display over remote desktop.
2. Changes the resolution (Or somehow scales the screen size to match the guest connection) while connected?

So basically I am looking for something like Remote Desktop that is built into Windows, but on the Mac side. (And NOT the free remote desktop client from Microsoft that only lets you do Mac to PC, I want the other way!)

Thanks a ton!
 
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If you have leopard, than it has VNC built in, so you just need a VNC client on your pc side and connnect to it from there. I don't have leopard and i dont use VNC so im not expert btw
 
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You mentioned leopard had VNC built in , I cant see this in utilities, could you please guide me to where I can find this?

thanks
 
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I understand that it has a built in VNC client, however it doesn't have any features in terms of screen resizing, etc. Does anyone know of a program that does?
 
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As someone else suggested to me, you may want to simply try logmein.com.

I've been extremely happy with it and it has several options to either scale the screen, or even change the remote resolution. Give it a shot.
 

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