Service appears in taskbar (in WinNT)?

[James [Wez] Weatherall]

On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Lisa wrote:

> Hi...  I'm new to this list and to VNC in general.  I have been playing with it fr 
> a few days and it's GREAT...  But I have one concern.  It's not all that 
> important, I suppose, but when something wierd happens, I like to try to 
> understand it.
> 
> I have installed the server system on at least 5 machines (all running NT).  
> On all but one of the machines, the icon is NOT visible on the taskbar.  
> However, on one it is.  Is this a setting or something that I have been unable 
> to find???  It is installed as a service on ALL machines and is running on all.
> 
> If it's user selectable, I'm not sure if I'd rather it show up or not.  It just 
> bothers me that it DOESN'T on any of them save one.  I'm really puzzled.

It's a known bug that the taskbar icon sometimes doesn't appear properly
when WinVNC is run as a service under Windows NT.  This is basically
because WinNT doesn't produce the WM_USERCHANGED messages that are
required to detect when a user logs in or out.

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
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Olivetti & Oracle Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK.
Tel : Work - 343000


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