Saturday, July 17, 2010

Ultravnc interaction with Windows Vista taskbar

I recently installed UltraVNC to allow remote login / control on my Windows Vista Home Premium laptop. I had initially hoped that Windows Vista Home Premium would have Remote Desktop as part of the base install, but I guess Microsoft does need a few features to distinguish it's "business" and "home" offerings to justify the higher costs for business consumers.

Anyhoo, UltraVNC sure does the job: I am able to log in remotely irrespective of the user logged in. I was expecting a more Linux like experience where independent log-ins and desktop sessions are supported, but this is a straight reflection of the host computers local screen. Scary good.

However, I did notice an odd interaction between the UltraVNC's service and the Windows Vista taskbar: every 15 seconds or so, the taskbar jumps up from auto-hide and goes back really quickly.

I don't know what is going on or even how to see what event is causing the taskbar to jump, but I'm sure it is because of the winVNC service because if i stop the service, it doesn't happen. If I restart it, it starts happening again.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I have the very same thing, using Vista Ultimate.