If you use the wonderful tool Synergy to share your keyboard and mouse over the network, you have probably noticed that starting with Windows Vista and now Windows 7 that setting the client to run “When Computer Starts” no longer works like it did with XP. Unfortunately, this project has become unmaintained so I updated the source code to work with Vista/Win7 now. Note, setting the Synergy Server to run “When Computer Starts” is still broken and will cause your mouse to freeze, maybe I’ll look into that bug too.
Here’s the fix. Unzip and replace the three files into your Synergy folder under Program Files. This is distributed under the current license of Synergy.
Download: Synergy.zip
Also, check out Synergy+ as they are now working on this project.
Source code: diff of changes to Synergy2 tag 1.3.1.
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