Run LogMeIn with Windows 7

// January 19th, 2009 // Software

LogMeInUpdate – From what I can tell, if you install the newest version of the LogMeIn desktop software, you shouldn’t have any problems on Windows 7.  Thus, this is now outdated and might be useful to a few for reference purposes.
How to use LogMeIn Free with Windows 7 Beta:

1. Download the LogMeIn software to your desktop from this site: https://secure.logmein.com/logmein.zip

2. Unzip the folder to a new folder on your desktop named “logmein”.

3. Go to the start menu and search for “cmd. When you find the Command Prompt entry, right click it and select “Run as Administrator”, and Click through the warning prompt.

4.In command prompt type “cd\users\\desktop\logmein\x86” without quotes and press enter. (If you are running 64-bit Windows change the ‘x86′ to ‘x64′)

5. In command prompt type “logmein install” without quotes and press enter.

6. The installer will run and you should then see the tray icon when it’s finished. Right click on the icon and select “Open LogMeIn…”

7. Firefox will open and you’ll get an error box. Just click “OK“.

8. Copy and paste this address into the address bar: https://127.0.0.1:2002/

9. Click through if you get a popup warning you about a certificate. On the page itself you will see something to allow an exception. Click on that and then click ‘Get Certificate‘ in the next box. Again you will probably get another warning but just click add anyway.

10. You should see the familiar LogMeIn screen. UPDATE- Make sure to login using COMPUTERNAME/USERNAME, then your regular computer password.  For example- davidscomputer/david as the username.  There are comments below outlining this as well.

It is a pretty straightforward process, but does take a bit of workaround to get it setup. Hopefully over the next few months LogMeIn will add support to Windows 7 for its installer package.

Thank you to user doober for the directions via the LMI forums.

-DPollitt

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View Comments to “Run LogMeIn with Windows 7”

  1. kris says:
    January 26, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    Dude, this post saved my life. I could get it run finally. :)

    Thanks
    Kris

  2. DPollitt says:
    January 26, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    Kris – Glad to hear it helped you out

  3. Esrustad says:
    January 27, 2009 at 8:02 am

    After you install it.. how do i get my computer to come on the website? i only have it on my computer.

  4. DPollitt says:
    January 27, 2009 at 8:41 am

    Esrustad – Try installing Firefox web browser if you do not have it already. Then continue with step 6.

  5. john says:
    February 21, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    fantastic info. Thanks for the effort of posting :)

  6. Chris says:
    March 19, 2009 at 7:39 pm

    found on logmein.com

    How to log in with Windows 7 Build 7057 (get rid of 1326 errors) Options

    lukenova
    New Contributor
    Posts: 2

    Message 1 of 2

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    I had to search through these forums to find this answer, so I figured I would make a post of it.

    You have to include your computer name when logging in, in this format:

    COMPUTERNAME\USERNAME

    so for example if your computer name is Fu and your username is Bar it would be:

    Fu\Bar

    the password is your normal user account password.

    If you need to find your computer name, follow these steps:
    Click start

    right click on computer

    click properties (this brings up the System part of control panel)

    on the left side, click Device Manager

    the first thing on that list is your computer name.

  7. mercado79 says:
    May 8, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    including the computer name along with the user name worked for me. thanks!

  8. DPollitt says:
    May 10, 2009 at 12:35 am

    I agree, with the newer versions of Win7 and LogMeIn, you need to include the computer name on the LogMeIn login screen. I didn’t need to do this at the time of the 7000 build of Win 7, but now with the RC1 out it seems to be needed. Thanks!

  9. Pete says:
    June 11, 2009 at 4:37 am

    Thanks very much. Was getting very frustrated with all of the sites trying to explain how to make it run, but yours really did make it easy. I’ve bookmarked your website.

  10. Dave says:
    June 22, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    Thank you. Works like a champ!

  11. JRD says:
    July 21, 2009 at 11:23 pm

    hi chris, thanks for the info. After lots of browsing ur reply was tat help me set logmein in windows7.

    The username has to be as u said “fu/bar”, and i was trying only “bar”.

    Thanks chris.

    JRD

    How to log in with Windows 7 Build 7057 (get rid of 1326 errors) Options

    lukenova
    New Contributor
    Posts: 2

    Message 1 of 2

    Viewed 59 times

    I had to search through these forums to find this answer, so I figured I would make a post of it.

    You have to include your computer name when logging in, in this format:

    COMPUTERNAME\USERNAME

    so for example if your computer name is Fu and your username is Bar it would be:

    Fu\Bar

    the password is your normal user account password.

    If you need to find your computer name, follow these steps:
    Click start

    right click on computer

    click properties (this brings up the System part of control panel)

    on the left side, click Device Manager

    the first thing on that list is your computer name.

  12. Tiago says:
    August 19, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    Hi there, when appears the LogMeIn screen and request the windows username and password,always give wrong login.

    I try a lot of users,pass’s…result=nothing!

  13. Tiago says:
    August 25, 2009 at 12:32 am

    Really thanks! :D

    I have another problem! When i make the login apeears this message: No subscriptions available.

    Can someone tell me what this means?

  14. kilinkis says:
    August 25, 2009 at 6:00 pm

    thanx a lo’!

  15. The VS WordPress Blog » Using Logmein with Windows 7 (32bit or 64bit) says:
    August 30, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    [...] so… here’s my version of the Steps to installation (taken from this blog post by David Pollitt: http://dpollitt.net/2009/01/19/run-logmein-with-windows-7/). ; These screen shots are taken from an clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate on a virtual [...]

  16. Kimchi says:
    September 2, 2009 at 9:33 am

    i just installed Windows 7 on my PC. i just hope that it is as stable as Windows XP.

  17. Tiago says:
    September 18, 2009 at 6:56 am

    Hi there!

    How can i uninstal it?

    when i go to remove programs,the logmein dont apears!

  18. ND says:
    November 30, 2009 at 1:16 am

    ^^ I would like to know of I can delete it too?
    Tks

  19. David says:
    November 30, 2009 at 11:00 am

    @ND – You can just remove it via the control panel “Add/Remove Programs” or try Revo Uninstaller if you want a cleaner uninstaller. http://www.revouninstaller.com/

  20. ND says:
    December 1, 2009 at 2:28 am

    @David, sorry it’s not showing in add/remove programs or in revo uninstaller.
    I have installed by following the guide but tks for the advice tho

  21. Azwa says:
    April 20, 2010 at 1:54 am

    Thanx for the helpful and useful step by step. :-)

  22. Azwa says:
    April 19, 2010 at 8:54 pm

    Thanx for the helpful and useful step by step. :-)

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