TightVNC: An Enhanced VNC Distribution

Site Contents:
Main Page
Download Area
Encoding Comparisons
What's New
Change Logs: Unix, Win32, Java
Documentation
Useful Links:
Primary TightVNC Site
TightVNC at SourceForge.net
TightVNC Mailing List
TightVNC at FreshMeat.net
TridiaVNC Developers
Official VNC Homepage

Help the project -- donate $10 to support TightVNC development!


About VNC and TightVNC

VNC (an abbreviation for Virtual Network Computing) is a great client/server software package allowing remote network access to graphical desktops. With VNC, you can access your machine from everywhere provided that your machine is connected to the Internet. VNC is free (released under the GNU General Public License) and it's available on most platforms. Original VNC distribution can be obtained at this site.

Here you can find an enhanced version of VNC, called TightVNC, which includes a lot of new features, improvements, optimizations and bugfixes over the original VNC version, see the list of features below. Note that TightVNC is absolutely free, cross-platform and compatible with the standard VNC. Many users agree that TightVNC is the most advanced free remote desktop package. And it's being actively developed so you can expect TightVNC will become even better.

TightVNC can be used to perform remote administration tasks in Windows, Unix and mixed network environments. It can be very helpful in distance learning and remote customer support. Finally, you can find a number of additional VNC-compatible utilities and packages that can extend the areas where TightVNC can be helpful.

TightVNC is a project maintained by Constantin Kaplinsky. Many other individuals and companies participate in development, testing and support.

TightVNC Features

Here is a brief list of TightVNC features absent in the standard VNC.

Download TightVNC

Current stable version of TightVNC is 1.2.6.

Go to: [ download page | Win32 self-installing archive ]

Keep In Touch

You can be easily notified when new releases of TightVNC are available by registering at the freshmeat.net site and choosing the link "Subscribe to new releases" on the TightVNC project page. (Also, you might like to rate the project by choosing another link on the same page: more realistic ratings will give other users better information about whether it is worth looking more closely into TightVNC.)

If you would like to ask TightVNC-specific question, or to discuss TightVNC and the direction of its development, please subscribe to the TightVNC mailing list here. However, if you think that your question or suggestion applies both to TightVNC and to the standard VNC, then you might want to write to the VNC mailing list instead. Please contact me directly only if you think your question cannot be answered in these mailing lists, or if you really like to send a private message. I apologize for the inconvenience, but I have been receiving far too much e-mail recently, and am having problems with answering all of the messages in a timely manner.

Before posting to a mailing list, please try to search the subject in the mailing list archives. The TightVNC mailing list archives are available here, and here you can search the VNC mailing list.

Help the Project

There is a number of ways you can help the TightVNC project.


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