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Alt-F4 now closes Viewer window

Trent, User (Posts: 56)
Oct 30, 2023 5:56:08 pm EDT
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I can confirm this is fixed in Viewer 7.2.2.0.

Thanks!!!!!

Alt-F4 now closes Viewer window

Trent, User (Posts: 56)
Oct 24, 2023 10:08:17 am EDT
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Excellent!  Let me know if the new release is available as beta.  Happy to give it a try prior to full release for you!

Thanks, Pauline and the whole RU team!

Microsoft Defender SmartScreen

Trent, User (Posts: 56)
Oct 24, 2023 10:06:40 am EDT
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Done!

Alt-F4 now closes Viewer window

Trent, User (Posts: 56)
Oct 17, 2023 2:24:29 pm EDT
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I can also confirm that rolling my Viewer back to 7.1.7.0 restores the expected functionality of correctly passing the Alt-F4 keyboard shortcut to the host when using Full Control and NOT closing the Viewer.

Alt-F4 now closes Viewer window

Trent, User (Posts: 56)
Oct 17, 2023 2:11:59 pm EDT
Support level: Free or trial
I should specify this is when I am in Full Control mode, not File Transfer.  Previous version correctly passed this keyboard shortcut to the host.

I checked my "Hotkeys" in settings and Alt-F4 is not assigned to any special function.  I am using the defaults.  The only thing near it is "Close" is set to Ctrl-F4.

Alt-F4 now closes Viewer window

Trent, User (Posts: 56)
Oct 17, 2023 9:16:18 am EDT
Support level: Free or trial
Good morning!  I just noticed today that my often used keyboard shortly of Alt-F4 to close a window is not functioning as intended.  As of 7.2.1.0, the keystroke is being passed to the remote host AND it is closing the Viewer window.  Expected and previous behavior was that they keystroke gets passed to the remote host only.

Both Viewer and Host are running 7.2.1.0.

Thanks!

Same Free License on 2 Computers

Trent, User (Posts: 56)
Oct 11, 2023 3:04:13 pm EDT
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Hey, Robert!  I'll offer a suggestion for you on this one... I don't think the Remote Utilities agent or host would be handling any kind of autologon for you, that would be a function that you would setup in the machine.

If you are talking about the host automatically starting up at boot up, with the installed Host, that SHOULD happen... BUT I have found through personal experience that some older and more sluggish machines (generally anything running XP likely falls under this heading) may need a little extra time at boot up before starting some background services.

If you go into the Services list in your control panel and find the "Remote Utilities - Host" listing, double click on it and change the "Startup type" to "Automatic (Delayed Start)" that may help you.  This gives Windows a little extra time to start up some other programs before it tries to start the RU host up.

May or may not help, but worth a try!
Edited:Trent - Oct 11, 2023 5:04:38 pm EDT

Video_TDR_Failure

Trent, User (Posts: 56)
Apr 06, 2023 3:55:35 pm EDT
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Hi, group!  I searched, but did not see any results in the forum on this one so I thought I would put it out there to see if anyone else has experienced this before and what they did to fix it (if anything).

I was attempting to assist someone using the RU agent.  I was able to connect without issue, but after being connected for a few seconds, the screen started blinking on the users end and got very garbled on my end (RU Viewer) before causing a blue screen of death on the agent side.  The exact stop code was VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE in igdkmd64.sys.

I noticed that if I reconnected using the RU agent and did file transfer and not full control, it would not crash the computer.

This is running a fully patched Windows 10 and the video driver appears to be up to date (at least according to Microsoft/Windows Update) and we were both using 7.1.7.0 of the Viewer and Agent.   The video driver was an Intel® HD Graphics 530, driver date 4/3/2022, driver version 30.0.101.1692..

We ended up using Microsoft Quickassist instead, so I did not find a solution, but thought I would share here in case others have experienced or do experience in the future.

viewer cannot connect to host

Trent, User (Posts: 56)
May 03, 2022 10:13:04 am EDT
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Success!  All connections are functioning again!  Thanks for the quick fix, Conrad!!!

Let me know if I can supply any further information from either the viewer or host side if you need to do any follow up troubleshooting.

viewer cannot connect to host

Trent, User (Posts: 56)
May 03, 2022 9:02:31 am EDT
Support level: Free or trial
Sent!