“i actually use mac daily, i will have to revisit this to see what would work best and it could most likely be easily done as mac already has vnc server setup ‘screen sharing’
are you thinking of mac hosts or clients or both?”

Keith replies:

Well, to start the MAC user would be in the field and I currently use Windows to connect. However, I will be adding a Mac user to my department in a few months so ultimate I would like this to be as platform agnostic as possible.

Works great so far. Thanks!

On the WIN7 Home Premium computer, I switched to the Windows 7 Basic theme (from Aero Landscapes), since that’s what you used in your testing. I then connected and the viewer XP machine had exactly the same results, no balloons.

I noticed that even though I switched to the basic them, the visual performance sheet still showed everything checkboxed. So, I told WIN7 to adjust visual effects for best performance. All the checkboxes went away. The WIN7 machine was looking pretty plain at this point but all the balloons came up on mouseover as did the start menu items in the right panel. I then connected using your SC program and once again the viewer machine showed no balloons and no Network Meter gadget.

Finally, Lucas, I connected once again but using the Single Click program generated at UVNC’s web site and all the balloons in the system tray and taskbar worked, as did the Start Menu right panel items, and my Network Meter gadget returned.

Hope these extra test help you figure what’s wrong. It’s quite odd that I’m having this much trouble when I’ve pretty totally stripped down my WIN7 machine and you don’t have the problem I have when you run the Windows 7 Basic theme.

Maybe a difference between Windows editions, betweem say Home Premium and Ultimate, depending on what you’re using.

We’ll see how this shakes out.

Regards … Sam