For remote control, Anyplace Control has a free 30-day trial:

Review: http://www.anyplace-control.com/PCIN-review.shtml
Download: http://www.tucows.com/preview/333974

There's also a 15 day trial on EMCO Remote Desktop Professional, which is supposed to be much more complicated but has many more features. This is the overkill option:

Download: http://www.tucows.com/preview/344687



As to filesharing between systems, you could always just enable Windows file sharing. If this is the only real reason you want to access the desktop computer (and you don't really NEED direct control over it) this is the easiest thing to do. Make sure the computers are on the same subnet/workgroup as usual.

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