teamviewer app wont let me sign in grayed out

Similar complaints have been reported in other threads here by many users with assorted configurations, but all of them seem to involve VM sessions or similar situations. In my own case, I run a Win7 HTPC using Windows Media Center, with connections at supported HDTV nodes around the house through a WMC extender. The extender is actually connection to the HTPC through a remote desktop RDP connection session.

And, just as in the case of the remote VM connections which negatively impact Computers and Contacts of TeamViewer, whenever any of my WMC extender RDP sessions are active I also lose Computers and Connections. The password area is blanked and clicking on it causes the SIGNIN button to get grayed out and the password area to become unusable. I only need to end the WMC extender connections and sure enough the Computers and Contacts window is restored to normal usability. Obviously this is annoying, but at least is a 'workaround'. Given the number of TeamViewer users of VM (and also Win7 HTPC WMC extender users) that this recent change apparently has impacted, one would home that the TeamViewer engineers would go back into discussion-mode to decide if what they have recently changed is (a) really justified, and/or (b) what can they do to fix what they've obviously not built quite properly given its clearly unintended consequences.

If this is actually the explanation and solution, I would submit that it's actually a separate (but related, I guess) issue. Obviously something that's been changed in the latest version of Team Viewer is now 'broken', with its clearly unintended consequence of instantly blanking out the Computers and Contacts window when a VM session or RDP connection starts. I don't use VM but I do use Win7 and Windows Media Center on my HTPC (at which I often sit to work and connect to my team members while watching TV). And if I happen to also be watching TV through my adjacent HDTV and WMC extender (i.e. an active RDP connection), the Computers and Contacts window instantly goes blank as soon as the WMC extender connects.

In fact I only have a single Team Viewer 'personal use' (free) account, with about 25 team members of friends/family that I maintain as their 'tech guru'. Normally when I open Team Viewer on any of the PC's I use (including my HTPC) since I have 'stay logged in' checked it automatically connects and displays the complete list of my team members. This is how things remain until/unless I active TV watching through one of the four WMC extenders (and attached TV) around my house.

#Teamviewer sign in greyed out password.

Teamviewer app wont let me sign in grayed out