Building a trouble free teamveiwer machine?

[scob89]

I've been having a very annoying issue roughly 4-5 times a month where Teamveiwer shows the remote computer is online, yet will not connect and am fed up with it, When it doesn't connect, I have to drive in and get the computer, as restarting almost never works, I always restart it and try to connect with my phone, Once I get it home and hook a monitor and keyboard up, I find that either Teamveiwer has updated itself and needs admin access to connect again, or some other minor issue. At the remote location there is only power and Ethernet hooked to the tower, Plus a USB cable. The computer is at a place with 50MB internet, and is used to download youtube videos, games, and movies/tv shows. We have 512kb DSL here at home, so no way to stream video or even music for that matter. The remote computer is our main source for entertainment.

The setup I have now is a HP Deskpro slim tower with a 2.4Ghz 800FSB P4 CPU, 1 GB of DDR2 RAM, and Windows 7 Ultimate, Only programs installed are 7, Firefox with ad block, and Teamveiwer 8. There is no firewall enabled and sleep mode is disabled, as well as sleep mode for the Ethernet port.

I would like to redo the computer so it doesn't have this issue, Mainly would like to stop Teamveiwer from updating and causing most of the issues. No point in the constant updates if it works, and the last few updates have really be pointless for me as i don't need support for windows 8.

Would it be better to switch to Linux such as Ubuntu or a different windows OS? I can easily up the RAM to 4GB so Ubuntu can boot within RAM.

I was also thinking of finding a copy of teamveiwer 6 and finding a way to block it from updating, never once had an issue with version 6.

Open to any and all suggestions.

[matt]

Perhaps also install some other way of remotely connecting in addition to TV. Windows RDP, VNC or other similar products to TV like LogMeIn or GoToMyPC.
Even if you can't watch movies via RDP, you could use that to restart the remote machine, and then watch on TV.

Also, check your 'sleep' settings on the remote computer. Don't let the drives spin down at all.

[scob89]

Tried a couple free ones before and the setup was to complicated, more so then it should be, so I didn't bother with them, Will give VNC a try.
Also the remote computer is used to DOWNLOAD videos and other things, as TV is NOT a video streaming program. The videos are transferred to an external HDD, which is switched out once a week with another one.

Any way to put a stop to the updates? That is what seems to be causing most of the problems.

No drive or anything on the tower is allowed to sleep, as said in the OP.

[matt]

Any way to put a stop to the updates?

On that remote machine
Extras >> Options >> Advanced >> Show advanced options >> check for new version >> set to never