More than I realized

Here is a great post of some free software from Microsoft that you may or may not have heard of.

I was using a few of these (like TweakUI and the Alt-Tab replacement) but there are a few I'd like to play with.

Virtual Keybord and Mouse switcher

I just recently got my Sager 9860 back, so now I have 2 computers on my desk (3 if you count my work laptop). I love dual monitor setups and was looking for a good solution to leveraging the laptop as a second monitor.

I want to work accross 2 monitors, but not necessarily only leverage 1 machine, being I have the laptop their it makes sense to harness its computing power.

This looks like the answer. Synergy allows you to mouse from machine to machine just like you would mouse accross monitors in a dual-display scenario. Whichever display gets mouse focus also gets keyboard focus, and it even centralizes the clipboard so you can cut and paste between machines.

I'm looking forward to trying it out!

InstallPad

Ok - this looks worth trying out:

InstallPad

Designed for setting up a new system, its basically a download manager with some ability to find the latest versions of software.