Synergy

United States
March 30, 2009 1:36am CST
Hi all! I was wondering if anyone uses or has used the program Synergy? The reason I am asking is my mouse for my laptop broke and I hate using the touchpad especially for games. So, I was sitting there thinking.. wouldn't it be great if there was a way I could control my laptop from the same keyboard and mouse as my desktop without having to switch it every time? So, I decided to turn to google and do some searches and what do you know, there is a way! Synergy lets you control multiple computers from one. My problem is, I read up on it and it says it works with a lot of other operating systems but Vista was not listed. My laptop runs on XP and my desktop runs on Vista. Does anyone know if this will work for me? Have you had bad experiences with this program? Any ideas or informatin you can give me would be great! Thanks for your time.
1 response
• Canada
30 Mar 09
Ive used Synergy quite a few times in a work setting, but it has always been on XP machines...never with two different OS'. I would think it should work, but there can never be any guarantees...especially youre dealing with Vista.
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• United States
30 Mar 09
Thank you for your response. I was thinking the same "Vista is going to mess this up for me somehow!". I have considered downgrading from Vista because it just does not get along with me very well. =P