Here's a little C# program I made that gets the filename of the currently set desktop wallpaper and also can be used to set the desktop wallpaper.

Example usage: SetDesktopWallpaper.exe C:\MyNewWallpaper.jpg

Just something I made for my sister who has Windows 7 Starter edition and lacks the presentation controls. Add it to your 'Send To' folder and just select the file you want to set the wallpaper as and go.

Synergy is a popular application for sharing a keyboard and mouse between multiple computers on multiple operating systems using your network. One of it's biggest flaws is that the underlying protocol is unencrypted. This means that people could potentially read what you type remotely. This article describes a method for setting up an encryption layer for Unix-like and Windows machines as well as automatically starting Synergy on system boot-up without user-prompts.

While I have no doubt there are several articles on this subject elsewhere, I'm going to give you a walk through from my point of view about how you can set up synergy across multiple Windows and Unix-like systems securely.

This walk through will be divided into two parts. First will be Unix-like setup and the second part will be Windows setup.