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Support Machine Removal in Mouse without Borders

Open kpriyanshu2003 opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

Description of the new feature / enhancement

An option shall be provived to remove earlier connected machines.

Scenario when this would be used?

This will come in handy to remove unused devices or previously connected devices to eliminate possible misuse or the machines in the loop.

Supporting information

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kpriyanshu2003 avatar Nov 25 '23 15:11 kpriyanshu2003

Will this be triaged at some point?

dazinger avatar Oct 10 '24 17:10 dazinger

I would love the ability to remove a device from mouse without borders for example, i did a typo when adding a device, and now i have FSD-LT-2824 (working) & FSD-LT-2924 (typo) this second one sits there trying to connect over and over and cant be removed. please add the ability to do this. i see this as an essential feature.

JamesTsetsekas avatar Dec 17 '24 16:12 JamesTsetsekas

When this can be fixed?

TomaszGrzmilas avatar Jan 08 '25 07:01 TomaszGrzmilas

Does anyone have a work around?

ClaytonBen avatar Jan 24 '25 15:01 ClaytonBen

@ClaytonBen @TomaszGrzmilas @dazinger @kpriyanshu2003 I found a workaround by enabling the old UI you can reset your settings and remove all hosts then you need to re-add them

JamesTsetsekas avatar Jan 29 '25 20:01 JamesTsetsekas

I find this annoying to see in the UI too, so my workaround currently is to edit the settings.json in the following path: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\PowerToys\MouseWithoutBorders

Mike-In-Training avatar Jan 31 '25 02:01 Mike-In-Training

there seems to be a race condition for this file?!? Failed to read settings: The process cannot access the file 'C:\Users\uv\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerToys\MouseWithoutBorders\settings.json' because it is being used by another process.

My event logs are full of this!

uvwild avatar Mar 25 '25 22:03 uvwild

Another vote for this feature.

mparson avatar Jul 27 '25 22:07 mparson

I find this annoying to see in the UI too, so my workaround currently is to edit the settings.json in the following path: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\PowerToys\MouseWithoutBorders

Thank you, this did it for me.

  1. Close PowerToys from system tray
  2. Edit the MachineMatrixString & MachinePool values
  3. Start PowerToys

JtMotoX avatar Sep 10 '25 17:09 JtMotoX