Originally written as a launcher app for VNC sessions onto other machines, VNCHelper is able to launch any application, URL, file or folder. It's as small on your screen as possible, and remembers where it's placed.

Clicking each item on the menu brings up a sub menu containing more commands. Each item on this sub menu has a title, command line and also parameters you can set. For a VNC session, the title might be the hostname of the machine you want to control, the command line the path to vncviewer.exe, and the parameters the command line parameters you need to start a session.

Any top-level items which start with a space are coloured with a blue background. Those starting with a period are coloured red, and those with an underscore are green. Top-level items are sorted alphabetically, the sub menu items are ordered according to how you choose, and can be made bold by checking a box.

Each top level item can be given a hostname. Where the text %HOST% appears in subitem commands, this hostname is substituted.

Data is stored in a file in the same directory as the executable, called vnchelper.ini

v3.01 - fixes a problem when cancelling a copy of a top-level menu item

If you used an earlier version of this application, this is a separate program. It does not store data in the same way, so will not interfere with v1 or v2. The down side to this is that the app does not import earlier data.

vnchelper.zip (50k)