Remote Desktop// Faster than VNC

I have a 24" monitor and I'd like to remote into my wife's powerpc imac the way I remote into my pcs using remote desktop in windows. I've tried out some VNC clients but they're just too slow and they don't auto adjust to my monitor resolution the way windows RDC does. Oh and this is all in one room on a lan.
Any suggestions very welcome.
Thanks.

Your post is not totally clear to me -- are you wanting to use a PC or a Mac to remote into your wife's imac?
If you are using a Mac, too, then on her iMac, make sure that in her System Preferences that Screen Sharing checkbox is checked and that the user access table is configured as desired with the allowed users. With the screen sharing line highlighted, to the right of that it says how visitors should specify her computer's name. Then on your Mac, in the Finder, choose the "Go" menubar item and choose "Connect to server" and in the resulting address box enter "vnc://Wife'sComputer'sNameAsGivenAbove".
If you are using a PC, and I think that is what your post might be suggesting, sorry, I don't know. You might look into something like Timbuktu. I would bet that that would be speedier than a VNC client, support adaptive quality, and support (screen size) scaling. But I've not used this product cross-platform and haven't used a Win-only version for quite a few years now so cannot unequivocally say that this solution would meet your needs.

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