Latest amendments to WinVNC 3.3.3r7

[Jonathan Morton]

>>Unfortunately the change has to be written to the registry this time, so if
>>the computer crashes for whatever reason, the resolution will not revert
>>back
>>to its previous form; this will only happen if the viewer disconnects
>>cleanly.
>>The reason for this is that there is a bug in Win98 (and I believe 2000
too)
>>which causes the taskbar to disappear when the resolution has been changed
>>to
>>800x600 and the change is not saved to the registry.  The only way around
>>this
>>was to make it a permenant change.  In any case, the resolution will revert
>>back to its previous state when the viewer disconnects.

>I think you could make it so that the resolution is restored, even if
>Windows crashes. Just make a simple .reg file with the proper resolution,
>and make it run on startup (using
>HKLM\Software\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce). All that would be needed is
>to have the server create the file and reg entry on connect, and delete them
>on disconnect.

Or...  here's a suggestion, it might not work.  Set the Registry, change
the resolution, wait a few seconds for everything to settle down.  Then
change the Registry back to the original.  This makes it crash-resistant to
a greater degree and saves modifying startup files (a Bad Idea
 in my book).

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from:     Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton
mail:     chromi "at" cyberspace.org  (not for attachments)
uni-mail: j.d.morton "at" lancaster.ac.uk

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