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Ultra VNC and the invisible Office 2007 Office Button

By Jason on April 17, 2008

When using VNC to remote control a machine with Office 2007 you may notice that the Office Button menu (top-left corner, main menu) does not display when using VNC. I gather this is because the menu is rendered with layered menus. If you click where the menu should be the machine responds properly, such as opening the ‘Save As…’ window, the ‘Open…’ window, etc. The menu displays on the local machine but does not get transferred remotely. If you install the UltraVNC hook driver, it works just fine.

You can download the driver here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ultravnc/UltraVnc-DriverSetupSilent.zip?download

If installing this driver live, the VNC connection will be severed and the machine/service will need to be restarted.

Update: From reader Per’s comment, things have changed with UltraVNC 1.0.8.

There is a setting under “Admin Properties” on the server. It’s called “capture alpha-blending” and should be enabled.

To get to these settings, right-click on the System Tray icon and go to Admin Properties. Check the ‘Capture Alpha-Blending’ setting under Misc. and then hit Ok.

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Jason is a full-time system administrator and operates 404 Tech Support in his spare time from Central Illinois.

5 responses to “Ultra VNC and the invisible Office 2007 Office Button”

  1. Per
    Per
    November 12, 2009 at 5:06 am | | Reply

    Just installed UVNC 1.0.8.0 and then the tool of the link above. Then restart
    But it still doesn’t work. I can see the server-pc but in Excel I don’t see the menu entries of the Office button.
    Is there some incompatility with uvnc version 1.0.8.0?

    Thanks for help
    Per

  2. Jason
    Jason
    November 12, 2009 at 11:13 am | | Reply

    Per,

    Please try using the mirror driver associated with UltraVNC 1.0.0.8.
    I’m testing it out currently, but assume it should do the trick, but updates have probably made the driver I originally linked to incompatible with the latest version of UVNC.

    -Jason

  3. Per
    Per
    December 1, 2009 at 4:37 am | | Reply

    Hi Jason

    Sorry, didn’t work either. But I got a solution now.
    There is a setting under “Admin Properties” on the server. It’s called “capture alpha-blending” and should be enabled.
    (UVNC 1.0.8)

    There isn’t a description yet under http://www.uvnc.com/install/configuration.html but I got the information by googling on the site: http://forum.ultravnc.info/viewtopic.php?p=40307

    Could be also usefull for others.

    Thanks for try to help so far.

  4. George
    George
    December 17, 2009 at 6:55 am | | Reply

    Per’s solution worked perfectly.

    Thanks

  5. Derek
    Derek
    January 11, 2010 at 4:57 pm | | Reply

    Per’s solution worked perfectly.

    Thanks

    :Clap:

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