I am grateful

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Grateful that the person who wrote this piece of crap at least made the uninstaller work properly.

 

There is an hour of my life I will never get back.

 

Censor me if you like, but WTF good is software with no docs? 

 

I put in on an xp machine, and a win 7 box.  Both can see each other, no firewall issues, but so fricking what? now what do I do? watch the video? Drag tghe two machines to teh dopey box. Now what? Setings? greyed out for sharing clipboard and whatever else was on there. I ain't putting it back just to find out.

No obvious way to go from my mainPC to Desktop. Put them side by side. now what?

 

Been a stardock customer for a decade. Not anymore this is a piece of sheeitt. Not even anyone from stardock in the forum to help with simple questions?

 

No wonder its free, only a moron buys software that is not self evidently intuitive and easy to use out of the box.

 

This is a disgrace. Every time I think I am over how bad windows has been from the start, and I think I nothing could be worse, I find junk like this.

 

 

C'mon stardock, where is the documentation. Surely you don't think  a lame YouTube video is the way to present such a product?

 

I think I will just keep fighting with Remote Desktop. At least it makes sense and almost works  pretty well.

 

John

[email protected] in case anyone wants to change my mind. I don't mind being shown to be wrong, but this is just awful.

multiplicity
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I think you may have misunderstood the point of the software.

Multiplicity is not like Remote Desktop.  It lets you share your keyboard and mouse between computers.

The purpose is for setups where you have multiple computers (with their own monitors) on your desk and you wish to control them while having just one keyboard and mouse on your desk.

Once setup you simply move your mouse off the side of the screen and you are controlling the other machine.  In the full version you also have a shared clipboard to let you copy text, images and files between computers as well as drag & drop support to drag files between machines.

It sounds like you may have been expecting it to be a remote desktop like application where you have one monitor and you remote into another machine.  Multiplicity isn't like that.  All it does is remove the need for the additional keyboard / mouse (and speakers in the full version).  Think of it like a KVM switch but without the video bit and seamless vs pressing keys to switch.