How to get access to a machine running PAD ?

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Greeting, I would like to know if there's any way to find out what machine that run my PAD / or remote control it.

The situation is, there's constant error in our daily flow which were caused by "Problem while executing action Launch Chrome". I figured out the probable cause would be an outdated chrome or I would have to update and reinstall PAD or extension. But the issue is, no one know which machine runs it. So, I would like to know if there's a way for me to update the machine's PAD, Chrome and extensions ? I only have the machine's name from the Cloud flow Machine view.

Any advice or suggestion is highly appreciated.

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trice602 16,034 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @RookAils1 ,

Go to make.powerautomate.com and click on Monitor > Desktop flow runs.

From here, you can use the machine name to Remote Desktop Connection into the machine in question and fix your browser extensions. (I know in my example I am showing a local attended view, but it looks the same for your VMs for unattended desktop runs). If this was helpful, please mark as a solution to help others find this answer to similar problems.

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Thank you for the suggestion @trice602 . It looked like its definitely going to work but apparently I don't have access to that feature.

Are there any other ways to do this ?

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Are you running unattended flows now?

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On that machine, yes, I ran it unattended. Now I have to run it manually on my desktop because I got copies of the flow.

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Ok sorry, I don't understand the question then. If you are running an unattended flow, you can find the machine it is running on, or was running on under monitor, desktop flow runs.

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Your IT administrator should be able to find the machine if you give them its name. There should be a way to connect to it, either via a Remote Desktop connection (from a proper machine) or TeamViewer/AnyDesk or a similar software. The way to connect to it depends on your IT policies. It's not something universal that we can tell you how to do.

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