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16 Jan, 2009

Running VNC/RealVNC on Windows 7

Posted by: Rob In: Uncategorized

Update: VNC Enterprise and Personal Edition now fully support Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 (RealVNC)

VNC Free Edition is not currently supported on Windows 7. VNC Free Edition is maintained by RealVNC, however since 2006 it has received security updates only, no feature/compatibility updates.

For users of VNC Enterprise and Personal Edition (RealVNC), a beta release has been made available that fixes all known issues:

http://www.realvnc.com/products/beta/

“VNC Enterprise Edition beta release with support for the Windows 7 public beta.

For general information on VNC, please visit the Enterprise Edition home page.

Resolved Issues
The issues that have been resolved in this pre-release are:
- setReflection() error when running VNC Viewer on x64 platforms
- File transfers truncated
- Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn’t work after resume from sleep

Reporting Bugs
If you encounter a bug during your trial of this software, please submit a bug report to Technical Support. Existing customers can use their Customer ID and registered email address. Trial customers can use the “trial support” link. Please include a full description of the bug, including details of what you were doing when the bug occurred, any error messages you received and whether or not it is repeatable.

Please also include the version/build number of Windows 7, and if it’s 32 or 64 bit. The make and model of your graphics card is also important.

Obtaining the Software
The current version is 4.4.3.2. You can download the installation package using the link below. You will need a valid license key for VNC Enterprise Edition in order to use this software. If you don’t have one already, you can use a trial key. Note that if you already have a suitable license key there is no need to replace it. If you require an additional trial license you can request one through the “trial support” area of “Technical Support”.”

16 Responses to "Running VNC/RealVNC on Windows 7"

1 | Dave

January 20th, 2009 at 11:17 am

Works great with enterprise now. Nice one RealVNC. Thanks for the link.

March 13th, 2009 at 11:04 pm

Just what I was looking for – thanks.

3 | bob

October 1st, 2009 at 2:49 am

That URL says no beta releases, and the release version for windows 7 is still jacked up because of the session 0 isolation. nice!

4 | Rob

October 1st, 2009 at 9:32 am

@bob

VNC Enterprise/Personal Editions are Windows 7 compatible now as standard, so they’ve removed the beta that was previously available.

If you’re having problems with VNC EE or PE on Windows 7, submit a support request to RealVNC and they’ll deal with it.

Are you talking about VNC Free Edition? VNC Free Edition isn’t supported on Vista or Windows 7, although there’s possibly a big update in the pipeline..

5 | sebus

October 11th, 2009 at 9:13 pm

It does work on RTM of W7 x86, but ONLY without encryption
Once the server is configured Encryption Always On, I can NO longer connect from same version 4.5.1 Enterprise viewer

6 | Rob

October 11th, 2009 at 9:46 pm

@sebus

This shouldn’t be the case – what error are you getting when you can’t connect? It’s now fully tested on the latest release builds of Win7 Ultimate x64 and x86, and all known issues have been patched.

If in fact you think there’s a bug, email trial-support [at] realvnc.com with the details and they’ll get back to you.

7 | mikey

November 22nd, 2009 at 4:44 pm

I can’t get my Windoze 7 VNC Viewer 4 to connect to my RHEL 4.8 box running the vncserver. The Encryption box on start of the client is grayed out. Always get the:

unable to connect to host: Connection refused (10061)

But, my other Windoze XP laptop on the same net connects, to that same RHEL box, with VNC Viewer 4 just fine.

8 | Rob

November 22nd, 2009 at 4:55 pm

@mikey

What exact version of VNC Viewer are you running? Check the “About” box.

The encryption box shouldn’t be greyed out, as this is before you’ve even attempted a connection..

“Connection Refused” means that you’ve connected to whatever IP/port that you specified, but that VNC Server was not running on it.

Double check that you’ve specified the correct port number?

9 | Chris

December 3rd, 2009 at 1:53 am

I have realVnc and connecting to ubuntu. When I type in open office, the wrong letters are showing up.

10 | Rob

December 3rd, 2009 at 10:57 am

@Chris

Make sure you’re running similar versions – If you’re running the latest version of VNC Enterprise Edition viewer but the old free edition on Ubuntu, then this will likely be the cause. The keyboard handling was changed significantly in VNC EE 4.5.

What keys/letters are being sent incorrectly, and what versions are you running?

11 | Chris

December 4th, 2009 at 12:28 am

The Ubuntu system is running TightVNC-1.3.9 and I am trying to use the free edition of Real VNC viewer on windows 7 home premium . All the letters are showing up wrong. I have tried TightVNC Viewer with the exact same results. The “a” key is right but all the others seem to be off. It will show a letter but the wrong one.
The “S” key shows up as b and the “D” key shows up as “f”

12 | Rich

September 21st, 2010 at 9:55 pm

Because of Real VNC’s reluctance to update VNC free, we ditched it for Dameware Mini Remote Control. They do user licences rather than a host licence so it’s very cost effective for our business model.

13 | Marsha

September 27th, 2010 at 4:01 pm

vnc will work under windows 7 with just a little tweaking. While loading there is a check mark that says register and configure VNC server for service mode…remove that check mark and finish loading as usual. The you must copy the run vnc viewer into the startup of your program files. I can vnc to other now and other can vnc to me. Tested many times now and runs this way under vista also

14 | Matt

November 8th, 2010 at 9:17 am

Don’t know what game RealVNC is playing by not updating the FREE Edition with this fix but it’s costing them A LOT of loyal users. These users may be free users, but at least they added to the product’s popularity.

We’re stopping all our VNC accounts at the end of November (even our enterprise and personal licenses) as a matter of principal.

15 | ali

March 28th, 2011 at 10:19 am

i need vnc

16 | conversational hypnosis

April 14th, 2011 at 6:52 pm

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