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TightVNCPortable Prerelease 1 [Testers Needed]

Submitted by Zach Thibeau on September 28, 2007 - 8:36am

Ok this is a just a little start on TightVNC Portable. In this release there is the tightvnc viewer and Server. I portablized both and I just need testers to check if anything is caught or not. I personally only noticed registry changes but there might ne something else I missed

Without Further ado here is TightVNC Portable
http://linkprophecy.com/node/2

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Beta Testing

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Excellent im just testing it

clivers - September 30, 2007 - 4:23pm

Excellent
im just testing it now..

Found a bunch of registry keys created

BuddhaChu - September 30, 2007 - 7:18pm

Here's the list. I confirmed the list be deleteing the keys and running the client and server. Keys were recreated. (A local copy of TightVNC has never been installed on my test machine.)

I'm not 100% sure of this, but I think you can ignore the last five keys listed. If you take care of the first five listed, the last five won't show up in the registry.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\EventLabels\VNCviewerBell]
@="Bell"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\VNCviewer]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\VNCviewer\VNCviewerBell]
@="Bell"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\VNCviewer\VNCviewerBell\.current]
@="ding.wav"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\VNCviewer\VNCviewerBell\.default]
@="ding.wav"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL\VNCHooks]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL\VNCHooks\Application_Prefs]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL\VNCHooks\Application_Prefs\WinVNC.exe]
"use_GetUpdateRect"=dword:00000001
"use_Timer"=dword:00000000
"use_KeyPress"=dword:00000001
"use_LButtonUp"=dword:00000001
"use_MButtonUp"=dword:00000001
"use_RButtonUp"=dword:00000001
"use_Deferral"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL\WinVNC3]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3]
"ConnectPriority"=dword:00000002
"LoopbackOnly"=dword:00000000
"EnableHTTPDaemon"=dword:00000001
"EnableURLParams"=dword:00000000
"AllowLoopback"=dword:00000000
"AuthRequired"=dword:00000000
"DebugMode"=dword:00000000
"DebugLevel"=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\Default]

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-602162358-113007714-1708537768-1003\AppEvents\EventLabels\VNCviewerBell]
@="Bell"

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-602162358-113007714-1708537768-1003\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\VNCviewer]

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-602162358-113007714-1708537768-1003\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\VNCviewer\VNCviewerBell]
@="Bell"

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-602162358-113007714-1708537768-1003\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\VNCviewer\VNCviewerBell\.current]
@="ding.wav"

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-602162358-113007714-1708537768-1003\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\VNCviewer\VNCviewerBell\.default]
@="ding.wav"

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Hmmmm

Zach Thibeau (Homepage) - September 30, 2007 - 8:22pm

Hmm I'll give it a try. but I don't think registry keys from HKCU\AppEvents can be deleted from a limited account under XP but I'll definetly add that.
as for [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL]
Thats already being done in the launcher for deleting that so no need to fix that portion. But I'll work on it on Monday and post an update on that
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full control

BuddhaChu - September 30, 2007 - 9:20pm

The user account that created the keys has "full control" of said keys/values.

I saw your code for removing some of the keys. Is it working correctly if I can see those values in the registry after the app is stopped?

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Ok

Zach Thibeau (Homepage) - September 30, 2007 - 9:30pm

Well the current registry functions worked for me on all my computers, What it does of the key ORL exists it backs it up as HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TightVNC-Portable-Backup
and after launcher once it finishes launch it moves the original key (After saving the portable version and deleting that value it moves back the backup version into original place. Can you confirm that....
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My Personal Blog in the making at a new address thibeaz.com

The day Microsoft produces something that doesn't suck is
probably the day they start producing vaccuum cleaners. (author unknown)