Input Director 1.1 is a System Maintenance product from inputdirector.com, get 4 Stars SoftSea Rating, Input Director is a Windows software that lets you control multiple Windows systems using the keyboard/mouse attached to one computer. It is designed for folks who have two (or more) computers set up at home and find themselves regularly sliding from one system to the other (and wearing out the carpet in the process!). With Input Director, you can share a single keyboard/mouse across a set of systems. You switch which system receives the input either by hotkey or by moving the cursor so that it transitions from one screen to the other (in a very similar fashion to a multi-monitor setup). The idea being that you can position the monitors from two or more systems in a row and use a shared keyboard/mouse to control all of them.
Input Director also supports a "shared" clipboard, in which you can copy data onto the clipboard on one system, transition across to another and paste.
Input Director requires Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4), Windows XP (Service Pack 2), Windows 2003 or Windows Vista. The systems must be networked.
Input Director is designed for those folks that have two (or more) Windows systems set up at home. Using Input Director, you can position the monitors of your systems side-by-side and then control all of them via one keyboard/mouse. To transition which system youre controlling is as simple as moving the cursor off the screen on one system and itll pop up on the next screen (similar to a multi-monitor setup) or via a hotkey combo.
Input Director also lets you share clipboard contents, so you can copy from one machine, switch over to another and then paste. This also works for files that are in network shared directories.
New features include:
* Slaves can be vertically positioned
* 5th mouse button now functional on slaves
* A preferred network interface can be selected for Input Director communications
* On request to shutdown by a Master, a slave can now be configured to either do nothing, go to standby, hibernate or shutdown
* Improvements to reliability to minimise false slave is unavailable, do you want to skip? occurrences
* Synchronisation of Keyboard LEDs can be switched off
* Permitting Screen edge transitions can be turned off and on via configurable hotkeys on the system being directed
* New hotkeys can be setup to switch to the system above and below the current
* When hotkeying back and forth to a system, the cursor can optionally not be re-centered
* The Main tab now displays the hostname and ip address of its system. The ip address reflects the preferred network interface choice
* The master marking a slave as unavailable as part of its background activities can now be optionally switched off
* Fixed a bug in the screensaver synchronisation logic in which if the master switched from screensaver to standby the slaves screensavers would deactivate
* Slave preferences have been relocated to the Slave Configuration tab
* Various minor bug fixes and improvements The license of this windows utility software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this Windows Utility software.