How to disable the "V" icon when using VNC

[Mark]

If you're like me, every machine in my house runs TightVNC - including the Family PC and you know what family are like, they see a "V" icon in the task bar they click it and are inclined to mess with the settings or to kill your session.

How to disable it

Code:

Start > Run > Regedit

Browse to:

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

Then in to:

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SOFTWARE

Then

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ORL

Then

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WinVNC3

When in the WinVNC3 window, right click in the right hand window - you'll see a "new >" expand the menu and left click "DWORD" call it exactly "DisableTrayIcon" press enter.

Right click the DWORD entry and click "modify", replace the value "0" with "1", keep it as hex.

Click OK, then close regedit.

To complete the process, restart the computer.

This was performed under Windows XP