The drawback of leaving this unchecked is that you’ll have to use the local keyboard or mouse to allow such actions. This option allows a shared keyboard to click the “Allow” button when you get the UAC window (usually for actions that need administrator access, such as tweaking system settings and installing programs). The second one about the User Account Control support is less essential. The first one is essential (unless you plan to configure your firewall to allow traffic from ShareMouse manually). The only important configuration options for Windows 7 are these two here: Configure Windows firewall and Install Windows Service for UAC support. Once ShareMouse is installed, the computers will instantly “see” each other on the network and start sharing. Start by grabbing the appropriate version from the ShareMouse download page (Windows or Mac OS X 32-bit or Mac OS X 64-bit).Īll you need to do to get started with ShareMouse is to install the utility on each computer. The ShareMouse equivalent will be much shorter. My tutorial for setting up Synergy in Windows 7 was a bit lengthy. Want more details? Let’s take a closer look. ShareMouseįree (2 monitors, 2 computers only) $24.95 per license (requires one license per computer-so expect to pay about $50 minimum) But if you’d like to see it in action, check out their demo video:įeature-by-Feature: Synergy vs.

Those are what I see as ShareMouse’s main strengths. No restricting one-way master&slave architecture.” You can control any computer from any other computer in any direction.

Update: Michael from ShareMouse pointed out a unique feature that I missed: “ShareMouse works in any direction.

Password protection and network encryption.

Glitch-free clipboard sharing (copy and paste image and text between computers).

Handy hotkeys and graphical cues for keeping track of where your pointer is.

Automatic configuration (no fiddling with machine names and IP addresses).

When compared to Synergy and the rest of the lot, ShareMouse distinguishes itself from the well-established competition with a few key features: It’s free for personal use but $24.95 per license for “power or pro” users (more on this later).

ShareMouse is yet another application that lets you share your mouse and keyboard with multiple Windows or Mac computers.

Where pertinent, I’ve updated and amended some of the content to incorporate his input. Update: After reading our review, Michael Schmidt from the ShareMouse Team got in touch with me with a few reactions to some of the points I made in this post.

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