Input Director 1.2.1

Input Director 1.2.1 is a useful software which is created 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 you're controlling is as simple as moving the cursor off the screen on one system and it'll 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.

Major Features:

1. Easy to Use
   • Easy to follow installation and usage guides - setup only takes a few minutes
   • Tell Input Director how your monitors are positioned simply by dragging them to the correct spot on the monitor grid:
   • Multi-monitor support
   • Shared Clipboard - copy and paste between computers (including files!)
   • Compatible with Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista or Windows 2008
   • Transitioning control to another computer is a simple as moving your cursor off the screen on one computer for it to jump to the other
   • Able to control a computer without needing to login to it first
   • Supports Windows fast user switching
   • Compatible with Vista User Account Control pop-ups
2. Manage all your computers at once
   • Simultaneously lock all computers
   • Synchronise the screensavers across your computers
   • Synchronise shutdown of your system (or individually configure whether a computer goes to standby, hibernate, shuts down or does nothing)
3. Security
   • Encrypt network data between Input Director controlled computers using AES with a 128, 192 or 256bit key
   • Lock down the Input Director configuration so that only Administrators may make changes
   • Systems can limit which master systems can control them by host name or network subnet
4. Transition Features
   • Ripples surround the cursor for a few seconds after transitioning to help the eye follow the cursor from one computer to another:
   • Transitioning using the mouse can be setup to occur:
   • • Immediately when the cursor hits the edge of the screen
     • If the screen edge is double tapped by the cursor
     • If the cursor momentarily pauses at the edge of the screen
   • Can be configured to limit transitions away from the corners of computer monitors to avoid accidental slippage between systems
   • Can also set a key (or keys) that must be held down to permit transitions between systems
   • Hotkeys can be setup to switch control to a specific computer or move to the next computer to the left or right
5. Keyboard and Mouse Features
   • Choose to use your mouse (speed, button order) preferences when directing another system
   • Supports different keyboard layouts
   • The keyboard LEDs (Caps Lock, Scroll Lock and Num Lock) reflect the status of the computer being controlled
   • Miror input - Broadcast mouse gestures and keyboard input to all computers simultaneously
   • Keyboard macros - record a sequence of keystrokes that can then be run by hotkey. Macros can be broadcast to all computers, played on the system being controlled, or tied to a particular computer
6. More features:
   
   • A semi-transparent information window that can be overlaid on any (or all) systems, pointing to the system currently being controlled.
   • With the click of a check box a slave can temporarily be skipped
   • On startup slave systems will inform the master system when they are available
   • Slave systems inform the master system when they're about to be shutdown or rebooted and the master will automatically skip them when navigating between computers

Enhancements:  

• New transition option: Double-tap on the edge of a screen to transition
• New transition option: The cursor must linger at the edge of a screen to transition
• New transition option: No transitions occur in close proximity to the corners of a screen
• Can suppress warnings about clipboard pastes, different versions of ID and slave unavailabilities
• Supports using the master's keyboard layout when controlling a slave
• Option to limit changes to Input Director's configuration to local administrators only
• Automatic startup of Input Director can be set for all users or just specific users
• Can default all slaves to skip on startup to avoid transitions to unavailable slaves
• Can copy files to the clipboard that are located on network shares mounted on the source system
• Can be set to remember whether screen-edges should be enabled or disabled on startup
• Installer no longer warns about installing to incompatible O/S on Windows 2008 and Windows 7
• Installer now correctly adds Input Director firewall rules on Windows 2008 and Windows 7
• Slaves can be upgraded "hands-free" for those systems without keyboard/mouses attached
• New Re-scan slave systems option from the "ID" icon's right-click context menu
• Fixed bug - Vista slaves used to occasionally incorrectly broadcast their availability on shutdown
• Fixed bug - reversed mouse buttons are now honoured when using the Master's mouse preferences when directing a slave
• Various minor bug fixes and improvements

•  WareSeeker Editor