Comments on: Fixing Problems with Synergy on Windows Vista

By: Richard Burckhardt

Richard Burckhardt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:22:39 +0000

Synergy was working fine for me until Windows updated on both my XP (client) and Windows 7 (server) boxes last night. Now the client on the XP machine says it is connected to the server IP but the Windows 7 server isn’t seeing the client.

Tried running in administrator mode, setting Synergy to run in XP Service Pack 2 mode, nothing works.

Any ideas?

By: Ernie

Ernie — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:31:18 +0000

Dude…you rock! Thanks a whole bunch!

By: Snevas

Snevas — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:26:02 +0000

This also works for Windows 7! Great article. 100+ kudos for you.

Problems in Windows 7 w/o admin rights:
When rightclicked the mouse is jammed in Windows 7.

By: agrajag

agrajag — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:20:28 +0000

One thing I found is that you can also (now?) set XP compatibility mode in the same ’synergy properties’ dialog, in the compatibility tab, from the example given above for setting it to run as a service as a default). This appears to have settled the “really wierd” copy paste issues I’ve been seeing… at least for now.

By: SE7EN

SE7EN — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:31:01 +0000

Thanks a bunch for that how-to! I wasn’t positive that the same steps could be issued on a vista box for automatic login.

By: Dustin Clonch

Dustin Clonch — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:47:20 +0000

Thanks a ton – that was driving me crazy – everytime UAC popped up or an app with Admin mode ran – freeze- not any more.

By: Dex

Dex — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:59:49 +0000

Running on two vista 64 systems, just changed compatibility mode in the properties onf both synergy.exe to run under xp service pack 2.

By: stephen

stephen — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:47:00 +0000

you can also open a elevated cmd prompt and type ‘net user Administrator /active’ and use the administrator account without any annoy uac…

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:18:20 +0000

I have this running on vista(server) and windows 7(client) and it’s working great if I disable the autostart.

By: phobic

phobic — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:13:21 +0000

THANKS MAN!
This have been bugging me for days, did a google search, and tadaaa. You helped at lot!