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You might have heard of it before, Hiren’s BootCD is a boot CD containing many diagnostic programs such as partitioning tools, system performance benchmarks, disk cloning and imaging tools, data recovery tools, MBR tools, BIOS tools, and many others for fixing various computer problems.

But when is it useful?

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In case you haven’t heard of it yet, CrossLoop is a remote access tool that enables connecting any two computers on earth. Yes even if they are both behind a firewall.

But what’s remote access anyway?
Suppose you’re in the office and you need to get some document from your home computer computer. You don’t need to go to your house and get these files you can simply use the internet to access your computer and control it as if you were there at home to transfer the file.

Usual tools like Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol require the target computer (the host) to have a public IP in order to control it. However, this is no more a requirement in CrossLoop, your computer can still be controlled even if it was behind a firewall and has a private IP.

So how does it work?
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