![]() ![]() The UI at set-up for MWB is very early 2000s but once you’ve got it running, it’s pretty much bulletproof – if you have two machines, the keyboard and mouse on both will stay active and be interchangeable… so if you had two laptops, you could use the software on either machine to control both. ![]() Install Mouse without Borders on each machine, connect them together using a shared password, and you’ll be able to just move your mouse between PCs, and the keyboard in front of you will operate whichever machine the mouse is pointing at. If you have multiple machines next to one another, there’s a great, free software KVM from an internal Microsoft project that release semi-experimental software to the outside, which lets you use the same keyboard & mouse to drive both – or multiple, up to 4 – machines. With Remote Desktop running on a local network, you can get sound and high quality video directed from one PC to another, and even copy & paste between them – it’s a really good way of driving a corporate laptop from a PC with bigger screens and better keyboard & mouse.Īnother way of dealing with the frontières ( pas de jeux… did you know that Kate Bush sang that French backing vocal?) is to use a more up-to-date variant of the KVM switch. Remote Desktop has its roots in an old server version of Windows NT, with the idea that users’ desktops could be run and managed in a central location. You’ll have the source PC in a window or full-screen, even supporting multiple monitors if the PC that is driving things has several screens, configured in the slightly old-fashioned looking Remote Desktop Connection app that’s used as the client to your remote session. For a quick way to kick if off, enter mstsc /v at the Start menu on your main machine to establish the connection directly. Once enabled, and you’ve chosen which user accounts can access it, you will be able to fire up the Remote Desktop client on your other machine and connect to this one, using its name or IP address. To switch it on, type remote at the Start menu and you’ll see the option to swtich it on. There are other options today thankfully, that don’t result in a rat’s nest of cable.Ī simple way of using another PC from your main one is Remote Desktop – if you have a Windows PC that’s running Professional or Enterprise version, you can enable the ability to remotely connect to it from elsewhere, a feature that is not enabled by default. Previously, this would have been achieved by sharing means of input and output across multiple PCs with a KVM device – where you’d plug your keyboard, video and mouse for each machine into one box, and could switch between them somehow. Posted in Productivity, Windows Tagged 22H2, Snap, windows, Windows 11 644 – Desktop, sans frontièresĪs a companion to last week’s tip on projecting your desktop to anotherPC, here’s another related but slightly inverted topic using one machine to control multiple desktops. ![]() *Deceased muso George Michael famously pranged into a Snappy Snaps store, leading to some inspired graffiti. This also kicks off the Snap Assist feature which lets you easily select the other windows you’d like to be in the same layout. This now creates a Snap group which shows up in the ALT+TAB gallery as if it was a single application, so making it easier to manage side-by-side windows that are related.įinally, in the Windows 11 22H2 update, if you drag your window to the top of the screen, a small black bar will hove into view…Ĭontinue dragging your window onto that as a target and a larger control will appear, allowing you to drop your window into the appropriate place. This Snap Layout can also be invoked on the active window by pressing WindowsKey+Z, followed by a number key to represent the layout you want press the corresponding number and then another number within the destination group, to quickly move the window – or Edge browser tab – to that location. You’ll then be able to select other open applications that can be slotted into the remaining screen space. One of the improvements that came initially to Windows 11 and has been improved in the latest 22H2 update – imaginatively called the WindUpdate – is the Snap Layouts feature, allowing finer control on the way you want windows to be arranged.Įspecially useful on high-res displays, this can be invoked by hovering the mouse over the maximise icon in the top right of any window, and choosing from a set of offered layouts. Windows 8’s touch fixation brought other means to control window layouts, while Windows 10 evolved things further with “ Snap Assist”. Snap is a feature in Windows, used to arrange applications on screen, building on a shortcut that has been around since Windows 7: press the Windows Key and one of the arrow keys simultaneously, and the current window will be maximised, minimised or snapped to one side of the screen. ![]()
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