SkipFullScreenPrompt doesn't work in Win2000

Freddy Jensen jensen "at" Adobe.COM
Wed, 07 Jun 2000 14:43:45 +0000


   >From: Ingecom - SERRE Jean-Christophe <jcs "at" ingecom.com>
   >Date: Wed Jun 7 2000  4:16am
   >To:   vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
   >Subj: Re: SkipFullScreenPrompt doesn't work in Win2000
   >
   >jensen "at" Adobe.COM (Freddy Jensen) wrote:
   >> 
   >> I just noticed that the registry value named:
   >> 
   >> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL\VNCviewer\Settings
   >> 
   >> was not present after I installed VNC (3.3.3r7) on
   >> my new Win2000 machine. I tried adding this:
   >> 
   >> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL\VNCviewer\Settings\SkipFullScreenPrompt
   >> and setting the value to 1, but the viewer just ignored it, and the
   >> full-screen prompt/reminder still came up.
   >> 
   >> Is this a known win2000 problem?
   >
   >Not using Win2000 nor 3.3.3R7, but 3 points that may apply:
   >
   >1-You need to set this on the client computer, not the server...
   >
   >2-The registry setting is not
   > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL\VNCviewer\Settings\SkipFullScreenPrompt
   >which would be a registry "folder" by itself, but it is inside
   > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL\VNCviewer\Settings\
   >where you then create the "SkipFullScreenPrompt" value
   >
   >3-Be sure to create is using "New DWORD value", not as new String
   >

Thanks!

I had put the "SkipFullScreenPrompt" value in the wrong registry
directory. After fixing it everything worked perfectly. Not a bug.

Freddy
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