Windows – How to make VNC faster/usable with Windows 7

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We always have been using RealVNC at work, sometines UltraVNC and both used to work nicely.

With the shift of our (and our customers) PCs to Windows 7, the VNC tools are horrible.

Not only are the screen refreshes a lot slower (or not happening at all) when I connect to a Windows 7 PC with RealVNC or UltraVNC, it also seems that the remote PC is getting really sluggish with screen updates etc. and sometimes Win7 is displaying some kind of compatibility message. (we have noticed this when we use RealVNC to collaborate remotely in the office)

Do we just have messed up setting, or is there some inherent problem with VNC running on Win7? (the remote/server PC is Win7 — the client is XP or Win7)

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The Aero effects seems to really slow down any kind of remote desktop/VNC.

I always used to use RealVNC/TightVNC, then Remote Desktop (RDP) built into Windows XP+... Working within an IT Support Specialist role.

But now I work within a company with a mixture of our sites in rural areas - some of which are now only recently on broadband (Just! Some of them are less than 1mbit!) I use Teamviewer, it's been the most stable and consistant with the dodgy connections i'm using.

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i use a ruby script, packed into an exe with ocra. since it's not regonized as a self extracted zip, windows seven does not prompt for admin password. may sounds complicate, but it is not.

it's realy a good workaround.

plus you can generate yourself your own exe and change setting offline.

how to :

make dir

myexe

unzip ultravnc-sc.exe into

myexe/ultravnc-sc

install ruby : http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ (i use 1.8.x branch)

install ocra : on a command line

gem install ocra -r  --http-proxy=http://yourproxy_ifneed

edit ruby script myexe/myexe.rbw :

Dir.chdir File.dirname($0)
exit if defined?(Ocra)
system('ultravnc-sc/winvnc.exe')

build exe : on a command line

cd myexe
ocra --icon ultravnc-sc/icon1.ico myexe.rbw ultravnc-sc/**

test it !

that's all!

Is it possible to record a screen-video from a VNC server

VNC2FLV

Works Linux, Unix, Windows or Mac. It captures a VNC desktop session (either your own screen or a remote computer) and saves as a Flash Video (FLV) file.

This connects to a remote VNC server. The website is pretty unclear but I only installed a VNC server on my computer (Customer's in your case) and then installed the python scripts on my mobile computer (Your in-house computer).

I only monitor one VNC session but I imagine writing a script an running them with at or cron shouldn't be to tough.

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