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How to install BukDesk, connect your computers and use it day to day.

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The emergency keys

  • The emergency keys

    Scroll Lock, or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Backspace, brings the mouse and keyboard back to the computer you press it on, at once.

Connecting computers

  • Arranging the screens

    Tell BukDesk where each computer sits on your desk, so the pointer knows which edge of the screen to cross.

Everyday use

  • Moving the pointer between computers

    Move the pointer past the edge of the screen and it carries on, on the next computer, with the keyboard.

  • The clipboard

    Copy on one computer, move the pointer across, and paste on the other. The clipboard follows the pointer.

  • Files and folders

    Copy a file or a folder in File Explorer, move the pointer across, and paste. Files move on the local network only.

  • Send to

    Right-click a file in File Explorer, choose Send to, then BukDesk. The file goes to your other computer.

  • The screen viewer and control

    Look at another computer's screen from this one, after someone there says yes. Control through the viewer is a separate permission.

For IT

  • Group Policy

    Registry values that turn BukDesk off, or parts of it: sharing, the clipboard, files, AI sessions, pairing, the relay, screen viewing and updates.

Troubleshooting

  • The pointer sticks or jumps

    First steps when the pointer will not cross, gets stuck or jumps, and how to record what happened so we can look at it.

  • Updates

    BukDesk downloads signed updates by itself and installs them at the next start. You can make it ask first, or check now.