After installation, you will be given the option to 'Add an Account'. Click Start and go through the installation wizard.When the Citrix Receiver installer has downloaded, open it.As the above note says, you may wish to uninstall legacy clients from Windows before running the Citrix Receiver installer but this isn't always necessary. The webpage will automatically detect your platform and offer an appropriate download link for Citrix Receiver. To download the most current version of Citrix Receiver, browse to.If you get any errors during the installation, please uninstall any old versions of Citrix Receiver and try again. Unfortunately, recent changes in support in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox have caused one or both of these features to stop functioning unless you are running the most current version of Citrix Receiver. It is also configured to launch applications directly when you click on an application icon (as opposed to having to download a file and then open the file to launch an application). How Do I Install Citrix Receiver on Windows or Mac OS? Note: The Virtual Desktop website is designed to detect whether you have a current version of Citrix Receiver installed. Citrix Receiver automatically creates (redirects) printer objects for your local printers so you can print to your local printer from a remote Virtual Desktop application.

Sound from the remote application will play on the speakers that are connected to the computer you are connecting from. Citrix Receiver also recreates any other manually-created network drive mappings that are connected on your client computer when you log in. Any network drives (other than your H: drive) that you get when you log into Windows when you're on campus will show up in Virtual Desktop sessions. For example, if you have a document saved on the hard drive of your computer, which is called 'MyLaptop', you can open it in a Virtual Desktop application by clicking File | Open and browsing to 'Local Disk (C: on MyLaptop)'. They typically appear in the remote session as 'Local Disk (C: on is the name of your local computer. These include hard disk drives, thumb drives and most USB devices that are physically attached to your local computer. In fact, when opening or saving a document in a Virtual Desktop application, your Documents, Desktop and other Windows profile folders are stored in your Home Drive or your H: drive.

Your Home Drive (H:): The H: drive that is mapped when you log into any computer on campus will be accessible from Virtual Desktop.

Among the local resources you will have access to in the remote session are: The user experience when connected to a Virtual Desktop application is designed to be as similar as possible to using an application that is installed on your local computer.

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