UltraVNC

After many years of using UltraVNC, its unfortunately becoming a bit unusable with respect to performance. I started looking at alternatives such as TeamViewer 8, and so far its quite impressive...and faster:)

My needs are modest . I have a home network with several machines of various vintages and for various purpose: PC01-Win 8 (main machine home office) PC02-Win 7 Home Premium (wifes home office) PC03-Win XP SP3 ( old XP games) PC04-Win XP SP3 (music management for home theatre 1) PC05-Win 7 Home ...

ok thanks , makes sense. I note some of my machines say ( in the task tray) that they are running the service with vnchook 1) what is vnchook and how do I get rid of it? 2) I read something about snhook(?) being better than vnchook. Where do I make this change? 3) My goal now is to maximize ...

How do I ensure that when I launch UltraVNC Server, itwill should up in SERVICE mode in the taskbar? On some machines it does, on other machines it shows up in APPLICATION mode. On any machine where it shows up in SERVICE mode, it works great and I can remotely connect to that machine from any pc ...

Background Been using UltraVNC for a long time. Currently on 1.0.9.6.1 (64bit) I have 5 machines- two on WIn7 64BIT ; three on XP. All on the same home network I recently rebuilt Win 7 #2.. so I suspect I have something not quite right there. Issue From Win 7 # 1, I can control all the XP's, but I ...

Using 1.0.9.6.1 When I was on Vista Home Premium, I had no issue connecting to my remote PC, saving config files (Save Connection Info as .... into a .VNC file) , and then simply one-clicking on those config files to remotely connect thereafter. Worked like a charm. I am now on Windows 7 Home ...