17-06-2010, 11:31 PM
If you're like me, every machine in my house runs TightVNC - including the Family PC and you know what family are like, they see a "V" icon in the task bar they click it and are inclined to mess with the settings or to kill your session.
How to disable it
Browse to:
Then in to:
Then
Then
When in the WinVNC3 window, right click in the right hand window - you'll see a "new >" expand the menu and left click "DWORD" call it exactly "DisableTrayIcon" press enter.
Right click the DWORD entry and click "modify", replace the value "0" with "1", keep it as hex.
Click OK, then close regedit.
To complete the process, restart the computer.
This was performed under Windows XP
How to disable it
Code:
Start > Run > Regedit
Browse to:
Code:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Then in to:
Code:
SOFTWARE
Then
Code:
ORL
Then
Code:
WinVNC3
When in the WinVNC3 window, right click in the right hand window - you'll see a "new >" expand the menu and left click "DWORD" call it exactly "DisableTrayIcon" press enter.
Right click the DWORD entry and click "modify", replace the value "0" with "1", keep it as hex.
Click OK, then close regedit.
To complete the process, restart the computer.
This was performed under Windows XP