I'm trying to set up VNC on my Windows 2000 machine at work so that I can occasionally work remotely. However, I don't have admin access to the machine, so I can't install it as a service, so I have to stay logged in and run WinVNC manually. This causes a problem when I need to restart WinVNC remotely (I ssh in using CygWin) - I can kill the WinVNC server process, but when I try to start it up again, it pops up a window wanting me to enter a password.

Is there any way to avoid having to enter a password when starting up WinVNC manually if I'm not an administrator? Can I manually put items in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER that WinVNC would pick up? What would be really nice is if there was a -textmode commandline option or a way to set the password from the commandline.

Also, a problem that I have a lot is that if the machine has kicked into power-save mode on the monitor, I can connect and enter my password, but I'll just get a quick blank screen and then the server closes the connection. (If I try using vncviewer from a UNIX workstation, I get some standard connection information and then "vncviewer: VNC server closed connection".) On my PC at home, if I restart the service, I can usually work around that, but I obviously can't do that to my machine at work. (I'm also presuming it's due to the monitor power-save mode... it may be something else.) Is there any command line program that I could use to kick the machine out of power save mode before trying to connect with VNC? (I've even thought about using a program to eject the CD-ROM drive with a mouse taped to it, but that seems a little error prone...)

Thanks for any suggestions you can give me!
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