Mouse Without Borders and Win8 CP? Yep, once you get .Net 2.0 installed... (and here's a couple tips how)

Cloud Security, Privacy and Reliability... - Mouse Without Borders and Windows 8 Consumer Preview

"I have blogged about using Mouse Without Borders before, but today after installing the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on my system I wanted to see if I could get Magic Mouse running. While the computer I installed it on has a basic touch screen, I wanted to put a mouse and keyboard on the device, but not clutter up my desk even more than it is. So…

The first thing I discovered is that Mouse Without Borders requires the .Net Framework 2.0. For those who have not yet discovered it, the .Net framework 2.0 is not enabled by default in Windows 8 CP. There are a few solutions to resolve this..

1: Using an installer that tries to download the .NET framework will trigger Windows 8 CP to try to enable the component automatically.  ...

2: If you go to Control Panel.. Programs.. Get Programs and select “Turn Windows Features on or off”, you will see the “.NET Framework 3.5 (include .NET 2.0 and 3.0)” ...

3: To enable .NET Framework 3.5 using a Flash drive (or DVD): ... Dism.exe ...

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Mouse Without Borders installed and worked wonderfully after that. Just remember to use the same version of the Mouse Without Borders software on all machines…

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Luckily Method 2 above worked for me, but I thought the method 3 was interesting and one I might be able to use in the future...

 

Related Past Post XRef:
"Mouse without Borders" utility from Microsoft Garage (Software KVM + Shared Clipboard + Files) - Think "Input Director/Synergy" from Microsoft [Note: Prototype and free for non-commercial use only)