RE: Hiding SysTray Icon
TightVNC can have it's icon hidden without loosing the functions that the systray helper provides. http://www.darkage.co.uk/vnc/faq.htm#hide Or http://membres.lycos.fr/tgx874sah/download.php?id=1 This is a tweaked version of 3.3.7 VNC that doesn't require a tray icon to work. Download the zip and read the txt file. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager via NCC Help Desk (0115) 9772010. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. Nottinghamshire County Council Legal Disclaimer ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Hiding SysTray Icon
Yes, but I didn't suggest removing any VNC related properties inside *RunServices* key, but inside *Run* key :p -Message d'origine- De : James Weatherall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyi : lundi 29 mars 2004 03:06 @ : Seak, Teng-Fong; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : RE: Hiding SysTray Icon Actually, you're both (half) right. For VNC 3.3.7: Under Windows XP, removing the key under Run will stop the service helper running. The service itself is run by the Service Control Manager. Under Windows 9x, the service helper isn't used, so there is only a RunServices key, which runs the service - removing it *will* stop WinVNC from running at startup. Items under the Run key only start when a user logs in, by the way, which is not the same thing as when the system starts. Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Hiding SysTray Icon
Yes, but I didn't suggest removing any VNC related properties inside *RunServices* key, but inside *Run* key :p The original question was: Is there any way I can hide the sys tray icon if realVNC is running on either 9x or XP? I am sys admin for a school, and I don't want kids going around playing with the settings. You wrote: Open regedit and from the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run remove the WinVNC value. You might also need to remove the shortcuts from the Start menu. Since the poster was asking about both XP and 9x, and since you replied telling him to remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\WinVNC, which won't exist on Win9x, don't you think it's possible that the original poster might be sufficiently mislead to find and delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\Win VNC, assuming your post to simply contain a typo? Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Hiding SysTray Icon
No. WinVNC will still start because what is inside that key is just the service helper, ie the little icon in the system tray. This is *exactly* what he was asking for. -Original Message- From: sergeant bash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: samedi 27 mars 2004 09:58 To: Seak, Teng-Fong; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hiding SysTray Icon if you do that Winvnc won't start anymore when windows starts up, and i think that isn't what you need.everything that's under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run starts when windows starts. From: Seak, Teng-Fong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hiding SysTray Icon Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:42:39 +0100 Open regedit and from the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run remove the WinVNC value. You might also need to remove the shortcuts from the Start menu. -Original Message- From: hauntedunix [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vendredi 26 mars 2004 22:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hiding SysTray Icon Is there any way I can hide the sys tray icon if realVNC is running on either 9x or XP? I am sys admin for a school, and I don't want kids going around playing with the settings. ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _ Exclusieve Xbox Live wedstrijd ! http://www.msn.be/games/xbox/wedstrijd/ ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Hiding SysTray Icon
Actually, you're both (half) right. For VNC 3.3.7: Under Windows XP, removing the key under Run will stop the service helper running. The service itself is run by the Service Control Manager. Under Windows 9x, the service helper isn't used, so there is only a RunServices key, which runs the service - removing it *will* stop WinVNC from running at startup. Items under the Run key only start when a user logs in, by the way, which is not the same thing as when the system starts. Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Hiding SysTray Icon
if you do that Winvnc won't start anymore when windows starts up, and i think that isn't what you need.everything that's under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run starts when windows starts. From: Seak, Teng-Fong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hiding SysTray Icon Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:42:39 +0100 Open regedit and from the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run remove the WinVNC value. You might also need to remove the shortcuts from the Start menu. -Original Message- From: hauntedunix [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vendredi 26 mars 2004 22:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hiding SysTray Icon Is there any way I can hide the sys tray icon if realVNC is running on either 9x or XP? I am sys admin for a school, and I don't want kids going around playing with the settings. ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _ Exclusieve Xbox Live wedstrijd ! http://www.msn.be/games/xbox/wedstrijd/ ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Hiding SysTray Icon
You could set the AllowProperties option to zero. This will not prevent the systray icon from appearing, but will prevent users to view (and hence change) the settings. http://www.realvnc.com/winvnc.html#4 Cheers, Geert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of sergeant bash Sent: zaterdag 27 maart 2004 9:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hiding SysTray Icon if you do that Winvnc won't start anymore when windows starts up, and i think that isn't what you need.everything that's under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run starts when windows starts. From: Seak, Teng-Fong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hiding SysTray Icon Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:42:39 +0100 Open regedit and from the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run remove the WinVNC value. You might also need to remove the shortcuts from the Start menu. -Original Message- From: hauntedunix [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vendredi 26 mars 2004 22:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hiding SysTray Icon Is there any way I can hide the sys tray icon if realVNC is running on either 9x or XP? I am sys admin for a school, and I don't want kids going around playing with the settings. ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _ Exclusieve Xbox Live wedstrijd ! http://www.msn.be/games/xbox/wedstrijd/ ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Hiding SysTray Icon
Thing is, the need to hide the System Tray Icon in some cases is legitimate. I'm working on a program to actually seek out the VNC system tray icon and prevent VNC server from creating it in the first place. It will take quite a long time for me to do this with the workload I've got as I wish to also put the source code under the GNU licence. I have actually cobbled up something for the organisation I work for to do just this, but I'm using copyrighted routines from a few programs I wrote myself and from an in-house system so, unfortunate, I can't release this version. Besides that, the hurried initial version `seems stable`, but then I have total control of the network environment I manage. I think Mr. VNC developer really needs to trust the people using VNC. The reason I went to all the trouble of hiding the VNC system tray icon is because a member of staff was always making a particular mistake, which was playing havoc with the production control system, but was very careful in case I would look-in. After I hid the icon, that person resumed the normal pattern of working the computer and while I was looking in covertly, I spotted the mistake and added the necessary extra dumb-user checks to that particular part of the production system. Thing is, while that person knew that I was observing, or though tI was observing, nothing went wrong, apart from wasting my time. This person since came to me and complained that the shortcut used within the program is now missing and I then explained that I had found the problem and corrected it. I didn't say I was spying. The problem was the user's attitude that the person will do it his/her way and won't be told any different. So, I would vote to make available the icon for VNC server to be hidden, or at least show it, but have the option to stop it turning black once a session is started. At 09:30 27/03/2004, you wrote: You could set the AllowProperties option to zero. This will not prevent the systray icon from appearing, but will prevent users to view (and hence change) the settings. http://www.realvnc.com/winvnc.html#4 Cheers, Geert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of sergeant bash Sent: zaterdag 27 maart 2004 9:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hiding SysTray Icon if you do that Winvnc won't start anymore when windows starts up, and i think that isn't what you need.everything that's under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run starts when windows starts. From: Seak, Teng-Fong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hiding SysTray Icon Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:42:39 +0100 Open regedit and from the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run remove the WinVNC value. You might also need to remove the shortcuts from the Start menu. -Original Message- From: hauntedunix [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vendredi 26 mars 2004 22:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hiding SysTray Icon Is there any way I can hide the sys tray icon if realVNC is running on either 9x or XP? I am sys admin for a school, and I don't want kids going around playing with the settings. ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _ Exclusieve Xbox Live wedstrijd ! http://www.msn.be/games/xbox/wedstrijd/ ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
Hiding SysTray Icon
Is there any way I can hide the sys tray icon if realVNC is running on either 9x or XP? I am sys admin for a school, and I don't want kids going around playing with the settings. ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
Re: Hiding SysTray Icon
Please see the first question in the FAQ: http://www.realvnc.com/faq.html#hide Hope this is helpful. Is there any way I can hide the sys tray icon if realVNC is running on either 9x or XP? I am sys admin for a school, and I don't want kids going around playing with the settings. ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
Re: Hiding SysTray Icon
Is there any way I can hide the sys tray icon if realVNC is running on either 9x or XP? Please see the first question in the FAQ: http://www.realvnc.com/faq.html#hide ...which says no, you can't do it. Oddly enough, I installed the server on two Windows 2000 systems. One of them shows the icon, and the other one doesn't. (And the server is definitely running -- I just brought up a viewer on that system, and no icon.) I didn't do anything different on the second one. !? ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Hiding SysTray Icon
Open regedit and from the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run remove the WinVNC value. You might also need to remove the shortcuts from the Start menu. -Original Message- From: hauntedunix [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vendredi 26 mars 2004 22:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hiding SysTray Icon Is there any way I can hide the sys tray icon if realVNC is running on either 9x or XP? I am sys admin for a school, and I don't want kids going around playing with the settings. ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
