NT 3.51 problem

[Mac Reiter]

At 04:30 PM 6/19/98 +0100, James [Wez] Weatherall wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mac Reiter wrote:
>
>> The default settings for the Win32 VNCserver will create that effect.  The
>> options are "Only poll Console windows" and "Poll window under cursor".  As
>> near as I can tell, the "Only poll console windows" is the real culprit.
>> If the VNCserver doesn't poll, it doesn't catch all the screen changes, and
>> you get a nasty set of roughly cursor sized boxes XOR'ed along the pointer
>> trail.  (Dunno if it's really XOR, but that's kinda what it looks like)
>
>The only reason for polling a window is that it doesn't use the standard
>Windows messages to redraw itself.  The Command-prompt is the most common
>window with this problem.  Virtually every other window in the standard
>Windows system should work pretty well with WinVNC.  If no windows update
>properly _at all_ then something is broken on your system with regard to
>the VNC system hooks.  You shouldn't have to set WinVNC to poll the whole
>screen - the standard settings _should_ work fine for almost all programs.
>
>Cheers,
>
>James "Wez" Weatherall
>--
>Olivetti & Oracle Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK.
>Tel : Work - 343000
>
>

I only know my experience with the systems here at work.  Win95B (OEM/OSR2)
and NT 4 systems, looking at the Windows Explorer program.  It is possible
that Windows Explorer does not do graphics normally, but highly unlikely.
I have seen the same results on at least three different machines here,
running Win95B, NT4, and 95 (unknown flavor)...

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