Stream your entire desktop (remote access)

[SuperMechaCow]

Up until now, options for remote access were limited and typically very laggy. With In-Home streaming, you can now stream your ENTIRE (Windows) desktop, not just games.

What's the practical application of this? I have no idea. I'm just trying to illustrate how big of a deal this In-Home streaming can be.

To do this, you must first TURN OFF explorer.exe on the server computer. If you leave explorer.exe on it will simply open a new window and will make the server PC disconnect. Some versions of Windows allow you to do this in the task manager. Some versions will automatically restart explorer.exe. The alternative is to bypass booting to explorer and go straight into Steam.

This can be done with a single registry tweak. Here is a simple guide, but you *do not* need to follow any steps regarding Big Picture Mode. In fact, it will work better if you skip those steps.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/bigpicture/discussions/1/864958451556578063/

When you reboot, the only program running will be Steam. None of your other at-boot programs will load, because these are dependent upon explorer.exe.

Next, add a "non-steam game" to your library. You want to find explorer.exe, which is typically located in C:\Windows\. Once that is added to your library, simply login to your client PC and run the "Explorer" shortcut you just added.

Your client PC (regardless of its actual OS or hardware) will now stream your ENTIRE desktop and sound via Steam In-Home Streaming. All of your server PC's at-boot programs will now load and function. What's more, is that now you can stream MORE games through this connection. I managed to launch Sanctum 2 from the library on my server PC from my client PC and play, *ALBEIT ONLY AFTER I HAD SET THE GRAPHICS SETTINGS TO WINDOWED MODE*.

This means, Uplay and Origin games (such as Battlefield 4), or other games that typically have and issue with the Steam Overlay or simply do not play with Steam can be streamed without issue. I am still playing around with this, so let me know if you discover anything about this.

Now all we need is an ARM version of Steam with In-Home and we can play any game we want on our tablets.

Also, your server PC's monitor will show everything you're playing, so I would not recommend this for porn.

[_I_]

you can also do explorer as non steam game

[Shodan]

Thank you, I am trying to set this up with 4x steamlink as extra network connected monitors
However recently Sunshine/moonlight are making great strides to do this.

[pdills12]

steam link on my Samsung tv runs well, but always has a micro stututer every 5 min or so and this si with a hardwired connection. other methods work fine so there defiently a lot more work to be done with remote play

[alex3yoyo]

You can also open borderlands 2 and click on the "Game forum" button and it'll go to the desktop and launch your broswer

[ks]

i just opened gta, and then minimized the rockstar window

[GenOfGames]

Be sure to turn this off if you're not going to use it all it takes is one person with your password to delete system 32.

[BasharTeg6]

With the game running, Shift+Tab to bring up the overlay, Settings, In Game, Uncompressed Screenshots Folder, Change Folder. This will open the File Explorer and let you minimize everything to desktop on the remote computer. From there you can do anything that doesn't require UAC - once you try to do something that needs privileges, you'll get locked out.

[karesx]

This is dead