Software Update: TightVNC 2.7.10

There are several programs to control computers remotely. TightVNC is one such program and, as the name implies, it uses VNC† ‘Tight’ refers to the use of compression, so that the program also performs well over slow connections. Since version 2.0, TightVNC is only suitable for Windows 2000 and above, Windows 9x/NT and Linux users should version 1.3.10 keep using. Since version 2.5 there have been separate 32bit and 64bit downloads and support for the fast mirror video driver DFMirage has been added. In version 2.7.10 the following changes and improvements have been made:

TightVNC Server

• Now all displays are shown in Viewer when monitors are connected to different graphics cards, rather then showing only one.
• No more cursor disappearing or freezing when an application window controlled remotely is dragged by its title bar.

TightVNC Viewer

• Added detection of a Windows key press (alone or in combination with other keys), as well as Alt -Tab combination in the full-screen mode.
• Improved a File transfer window: file listing in the directory is now case insensitive.
• Added sorting of files by Name, Size or date Modified either in ascending or descending order.

For both Server and Viewer, performance gain is achieved when TightVNC encoding is used due to accelerated JPG encoding and decoding. It is noticeable mostly on old hardware configurations.