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Use One Keyboard & Mouse For Two Computers (PC Only) It’s your friendly neighborhood admin with a solution to a common computer problem around my house.

Use One Keyboard & Mouse For Two Computers (PC Only)

Chances are if you have one computer in your household you have more than one computer in your household. It’s just a fact. More and more homes have servers, media centers and multiple desktops/laptops. Some people use KVM‘s to control multiple machines. These KVM’s are a simple switch that lets you switch control to another physically connected machine. Let’s say I want to copy information from my desktop to my server. If you have two or more machines in your home with monitors attached you can now control multiple computers from one single mouse and keyboard. Input Director’s Website breaks it down like this: Got it? Your main machine with the keyboard and mouse that you want to use will be called the MASTER and other machines that you will remote control are your SLAVES. I have used other programs that claim to do what Input Director does – but hands down this is the easiest to make work. AnyDVD, CloneDVD, CloneCD, GameJackal, Any DVD, Clone DVD, Clone CD, Game Jackal.

175 Windows 7 Tweaks, Tips, and How-To Articles. Windows 7 is being officially released on October 22nd, which also happens to be today.

175 Windows 7 Tweaks, Tips, and How-To Articles

The team here has been furiously writing Windows 7 articles, and updating old articles for Windows 7—and we now have more than 175 articles covering Windows 7. First: Get Your Copy Yet? If you haven’t already gotten your copy of Windows 7, you can buy it now on Amazon… although if you are impatient you could also head down to the local tech store and grab it. We recommend Home Premium for almost anybody, though you can grab Ultimate or Professional if you wanted to spend more. Get Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade for $119 @ Amazon Note: If you are currently running the Release Candidate version, we’ve got a guide on how to Upgrade the Windows 7 RC to RTM (Final Release). The How-To Geek Windows 7 Category We’ve written just loads of articles, and so we’ve decided to do a roundup of most of them here in a single post. Awesome Articles About New Windows 7 Stuff Articles About Shortcuts & Hotkeys Conclusion.

10 tweaks to make Windows 7 even better. Windows 7 appears to be a crowd pleaser among the IT pros who have been kicking its beta tires -- including Deb Shinder.

10 tweaks to make Windows 7 even better

But even though she's very impressed with the new OS, she's already discovered several ways to improve it. Windows 7 appears to be a crowd pleaser among the IT pros who have been kicking its beta tires -- including Deb Shinder. But even though she's very impressed with the new OS, she's already discovered several ways to improve it. Windows 7 hasn't even been released yet, but many people (yes, I'm one of them) are already running it on their production computers despite Microsoft's advice not to do that with beta software.

Regardless of Windows 7's incomplete status, many techies will tell you that it's more stable and reliable than Vista. Still, as good as Windows 7 is, it's not perfect out of the box. Note: This article is also available as a PDF download. 1: Get Quick Launch back I liked the new Windows 7 taskbar a lot -- but something was missing. Figure A Figure B. The Power User's Guide to the Windows 7 Taskbar.