MouseTwitcher is a small utility that will move your mouse a tiny bit every 10 seconds whenever mouse inactivity is detected. This will trick a Remote Desktop or any thin client session into thinking you are still connected so that it does not timeout on you and hang your application.

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“This is a great little utility that I use everyday.”
-Anthony McKinney, DS2 Systems

Notes

After you install the application, you may find it helpful to place a shortcut to it in your startup folder so that it runs when you turn on your computer.

Optional command line arguments: mousetwitcher.exe [Interval in millseconds] [Pixels]

example: "c:\Program Files\mousetwitcher\mousetwitcher.exe" 10000 5