Trouble restarting Win when VNC running?

[OldNick]

Win98 SE.
V1.0.0 RC18

I was (finally) working on my Father's machine using UltraVNC, Win 98 to Win98. I tried restarting his PC, but it would get to a screen saying "Windows is shutting down, and then sit there. Mine has done this from time to time, but not repeatedly.

This meant of course that it would not restart, and I could not reconnect.

I did make some changes to the Registry, trying to remove traces of a programme that was not behaving. I need to check that out.

But has anyone else had any trouble rebooting a Win 98 machine when UltraVNC is installed or is running? If so, it gives me one thing to look at

Thanks for any help.

[NightRyder]

Just wondering... have you actually checked the machine? It might have restarted. When I shutdown, the last screen stays up on my vnc window. This was done by the dev's so you could close any offending programs because before vnc would close but something else might not, and then the machine would be stuck shutting down, waiting for user input w/o vnc running.

[OldNick]

I'll try again. I did actually try to reply to this a couple of days back.

Ok. Good idea, but I had already rung the Server owner, and the machine itself would not restart. It hangs at the "Please wait while Windows shuts down" screen (which only shows when Windows 98 is NOT shutting down as far as I can see! <G>)

According to my Dad (the server) the machine will shut down OK. I did not get as far as seeing whether something else had changed (he had disconnected ther modem for instance), or the machine was now shutting down but still refusing to restart.

I get to look at the machine today

[OldNick]

A test. The symptoms, relevant or not.

At all stage, the computer would Shut Down fine. It would then start up fine from scratch.

When I try to uninstall, I get Error 2185: Service name invalid. Make sure you are specifying a valid Service....etcetc"

On most occasions the Current User Properties screen shows up on reboot, and will not allow vnc server to run until I hit OK.
- It will allow _entry_ of a password and will use that PW for connection, until I either reboot or if I Close VNC Server and restart it. It was working OK in the past. The only recognisable change I made was to uninstall RADMIN, which did not go very smoothly.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling _not_ as a Service. This made no difference to restarting.

I also still had the Error 2185 message when trying to uninstall, whether vnc was installed as a Service or not.

BUT

I did find that my attempt had probably failed, because the vnc server was still showing in the registry under MyComputer\ \ \RunServices

I tried removing all references to "vnc" from the registry (uninstall left heaps). I left any refs to VNCHOOKS, because there lots of references to other programmes, and when I exported the reigstry and _did_ try to remove all refs to VNCHOOKS, Regedit would not allow me to.

My chosen IP address is 10.0.0.02/255.255.255.0. Port 5900. Everything else is pretty standard as far as vnc is concerned.

Turning the screen saver off did not help.

[Guest]

I did make some changes to the Registry, trying to remove traces of a programme that was not behaving. I need to check that out.

I wonder if these problemc are due to the changes you made.... or ...

have you tried:

- checking the hard drive for bad sectors?
- cleaning out the temp directory?
- a defrag of the hard drive?

[Guest]

I'll check those out.