2 Rearrange your computers
In its default state, ‘Mouse without Borders’ assumes that your primary computer is on the left and your second computer – which you’re using as an external screen – is on the right. If they are the other way around, and you moved your cursor to the left of your main screen and, instead of jumping smoothly to your second machine, it got stuck at the edge, you need to rearrange your computers in the ‘Mouse without
Borders’ program.
On your primary machine, grab hold of the computer called ‘local machine’ in the program window ( 1 in our screenshot below) and drag it to the right so that the secondary machine is now in the first position, and the primary one is second. If your screens aren’t side by side but instead above and below each other (perhaps because one is on a shelf), tick the box beside Two Row 2 , then drag them to their appropriate positions.
Note that as the Two Row option arranges the screens in a square, you can even specify that one sits both above and to the left or right of the other, in which case moving from one screen to the other is a simple matter of rolling the pointer out of the corner of either screen.
Minimise or close the ‘Mouse without Borders’ window on each machine, and you can use them both with a single keyboard and mouse. Whichever screen is hosting your cursor also gets the output of your keyboard. To test this, click Start on the second screen, then start typing notepad and notice how the list of programs on the second computer starts narrowing until you find the one you want.
Rather neatly, the two machines share a single clipboard, so anything you copy from a program on one of them can be pasted into an entirely different program running on the other. You can also drag files from one computer across to the other as easily as you would drag them between folders on a single device. It doesn’t matter where you drop them on the destination machine; whatever you choose, they’ll end up in a ‘Mousewithoutborders’ folder on its desktop, from where you can drag them to their eventual home.