How to share mouse and keyboard across multiple computers or control up to four computers from a single mouse and keyboard with no extra hardware?
This is common scenario where you want to control multiple computers with one keyboard and mouse. It can be at your workplace or at home. If you are a software programmer then you can connect your development PC and your deployment PC with a single mouse and keyboard. At home you can connect your entertainment PC with your work PC and control them with a single mouse and keyboard.
Mouse without Borders is a wonderful piece of software from Microsoft using which you can control up to four computers with a single keyboard and mouse. This tool will help you to achieve so many things. You can drag and drop or copy and paste text, media, and all types of files across multiple computers with ease.
Mouse without Borders is an outcome of one of the Microsoft Garage project and allows working and accessing multiple computers as if they were part of one single desktop. Mouse without Borders is easy to setup and the file needs to be downloaded is also quite small. You need to install the utility on all your Windows computers. All computers will be linked using a security code provided by the software.
Apart from copy paste of files and other controls you can also lock or log in to all PCs from one PC. Mouse without Border works with a maximum of four Windows PCs.
Here are the main features of Mouse without Borders
- Use your mouse seamlessly
- Drag files across computers
- Copy & paste across computers
- Share one keyboard across computers
- Lock and Log into all your PCs at one time
- Share screen captures from once PC to another.
See the video below
Now you don’t have to move from one seat to another to get access to different PCs. You don’t have to even search for flash drive or external hard drive to copy files from one PC to another.
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