While waiting for your Raspberry Pi to finish booting, download and install the VNC Viewer on your laptop. This app will display the board's desktop environment on your Windows or Mac.

Plain install of FC3, I would like to have VNC start as a service and accept connection on boot. I have connected using VNC viewer on my XP box and using ...

If it's even possible to use VNC over dial-up, I remember it being slow over my lan. Of course if you know of a better program to remote control a WinXP(99% sure it's Home) machine then please let ...