___________________________________________ THE OFFICIAL ANSWER The official answer is that you can not remove the VNC Icon from the system tray... and don't bother asking for this feature to be added because the author has taken a very strong position on this (and I agree with him) and to my knowledge he hasn't even come close to ever being convinced to change his mind. It all has to do with privacy, morals and ethics. See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/faq.html#q46 for the official details. Personally I think we are lucky that it is just a tiny icon. Could have been worse... like a bar right across the screen or something like that. ___________________________________________ THE WARNING
[ Please don't take the following the wrong way. Parts of it may sound harsh but is in fact nothing more than a simple friendly warning based on the experience of many who have gone though similar experiences and is not meant to necessarily be a reflection of your personal situation. ] PLEASE BE SURE TO GET MANAGEMENTS SUPPORT BEFORE YOU IMPLEMENT ANY REMOTE TAKEOVER SOLUTION, be it VNC, PCAnywhere, Remote Desktop Connection, NetOP or any of the others out there, especially if you are planning on running this in stealth mode. I remember installing a program called LanAssist years ago on old DOS machines to help me support users. I almost got fired the first time the VP found out that I could take over their screen at any time. Without management supporting and having a good understanding of your initiative, your users could have management force you to completely remove this valuable tool from your network which would really defeat the what you are trying to accomplish. It's not hard to cry foul when dealing with privacy issues. It doesn't matter if you are the most ethical person in the world. What counts is what users believe and if they even have the slightest concern that you might be looking over their virtual shoulder when they are not expecting it and without them knowing it, your project will die right there and then. It's not all that different than tapping a telephone line really when you think about it. ___________________________________________ THE SOLUTION Assuming you have full management support, I have included below a few suggestions below on how you might overcome the challenge of removing the VNC icon from the system tray. Keep in mind that I haven't actually ever had the need or even tried any of the following techniques: 1) Download, modify and recompile the source code so that the icon no longer appears on the task bar. Not supported. 2) Try using TridiaVNC (supported by Tridia only). I believe a setting to remove or hide the icon is (or at least used to be) included. See http://www.tridiavnc.com/list-mailist/2001/Feb/0002.html for details. 3) There is a utility called Resource Hacker (http://www.rpi.net.au/~ajohnson/resourcehacker/) which will allow you to open WinVNC.exe, edit it and then save it. It will allow you to remove the icon from WinVNC.exe and may solve your problem. Whether VNC works after that is another question. Not supported of course. 4) Take a chance and try applying the TridiaVNC "DisableTrayIcon" registry change to TightVNC. TightVNC adds many features to the standard WinVNC and might possibly support the ability to disable the TightVNC tray icon. 5) For more details and other alternatives, check out the "WinVNC Tray Icon Mini-FAQ", available at http://vnc.ingecom.com/tray.htm. ___________________________________________ THE SUPPORT With the exception of the TridiaVNC and possibly the TightVNC solutions, any other tweak that gets rid of the icon could result in loss of support by the author of VNC as well as fellow VNC users. You have been warned. Michael Milette TNG Consulting Inc. At 04:53 PM 2001-11-22, you wrote: >how do you hide the VNC icon on the task bar? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
