Taskbar icon

[David Bussenschutt]

Quentin,
(and list)

How come I can run it without an icon then?? I have installed it on in
excess of 30 machines, and growing... (will be about 200 by the time I'm
finished)

I changed the way it's started as a service from:
(this is in regedit 4 format)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices]
"WinVNC"=""C:\\Program Files\\Orl\\VNC\\WinVNC.exe" -service"

to

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices]
"WinVNC"="C:\\Program Files\\Orl\\VNC\\WinVNC.exe -service"

I didn't change the source code, I didn't recompile, I just removed a
couple of quotes from the registry.

BTW, I'm running Windows 95 OSR2 almost exclusively (ie the latest
release). We have some machines with winsock 2 patch applied, some without.
Dozens of types of Hardware (everything from 486-66 to PentiumII 350),
without exception every machine I've installed it on this way has NO icon
in the systray.

Can you explain this?

Oh, it really is running as a service too because I can log-in remotely.

David.

P.S. Restricted mode is a great idea anyway.



At 11:06 21/09/98 +0000, Quentin Stafford-Fraser wrote:
>We've had a lot of queries about this, so I've added the following to
>the FAQ:
>
>
>Q. Can I get rid of the taskbar icon created by WinVNC?
>
>No. Not without changing and recompiling the source code.  We feel that
>there would be few legitimate uses of VNC where you would need to
>conceal its operation.
>However, there might  be occasions where you would not want the user of
>the server machine to be able to adjust the WinVNC settings, password,
>etc, so versions later than 3.3.2R3 will include a 'restricted' mode
>where the icon is still visible, but the menu options normally available
>from it will be disabled.
>
>
>Quentin
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