Er zijn verschillende programma's om computers op afstand te besturen. TightVNC is zo'n programma en zoals de naam al aangeeft, maakt het gebruik van VNC. Tight slaat op het gebruik van compressie, waardoor het programma ook goed presteert over trage verbindingen. Nog niet zo lang geleden is versie 2.0 uitgekomen en sindsdien zijn er twee updates verschenen. Versie 2 van TightVNC is alleen voor Windows 2000 en hoger geschikt. Windows 9x/NT- en Linux-gebruikers moeten versie 1.3.10 blijven gebruiken. Hieronder is te vinden wat er sinds versie 2.0 allemaal is veranderd.
TightVNC 2.0.2TightVNC 2.0.1
- Server for Windows: The server could work incorrectly or even crash when font size adjustment or DPI scaling feature was used. New version should be fully compatible with Windows desktop scaling. This fix was developed for TightVNC 2.0.1 but was not included in that version due to a packaging problem.
- Server and Viewer for Windows: More fixes have been made to solve problems with clipboard transfers. Both server and viewer could send question characters instead of non-ASCII symbols if current input language did not match the text encoding. These fixes complement related changes introduced in version 2.0.1.
- Server for Windows: The server could work incorrectly or even crash when font size adjustment or DPI scaling feature was used. New version should be fully compatible with Windows desktop scaling. [UPDATE: Due to a packaging problem this fix was not included in version 2.0.1.]
- Server for Windows: Fixed log file rotation. After creating five backup copies, it failed to rename old files and just overwrote the most recent log file.
- Viewer for Windows: Server-to-client clipboard transfers have been fixed. Characters beyond the basic ASCII set could be copied into the local clipboard incorrectly.