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I recently purchased the budget Android phone, the Kyocera Risa, by Virgin Mobile and was looking for the best way to Root my device. I did find an excellent guide to doing this: How To Root Kyocera Rise v4.0.4 No PC Required Although the Rise is a bit limited by it's internal hardware, I found that rooting this phone did improve performance as well as opening up various flexible options to other software apps, that would not have been possible otherwise. The Rise does not support Custom ROMS, unfortunately, but there is some level of customization with apps such as ROM Toolbox, Pimp My Rom and Nova Launcher.

I thought this was a good overview of free remote access options that are available now.  Personally, I've used Teamveiwer many times in the past and would whole heartily recommended it. The Best Tools to Easily Perform Remote Tech Support

I had to recently add the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc), to a Windows 7 Home Premium environment, which natively, does not come installed.  I didn't realize that one could install this on a limited version of Windows 7, such as Windows 7 Home Premium. These steps were easy to follow and provided the addition of gpedit.msc, that was in need. Adding gpedit.msc to Windows 7