Need slight help/suggestion with multiple monitors

[Xan]

One my family members just hooked up a 22" LCD and a 30 / 40" something HD Screen.

She is running Windows XP Service Pack 3 on a 9800GTX+.

I've tried tinkering with the nView from Nvidia but all i managed was cloning one desktop onto another.

Mainly what she needs is to have a game running on one monitor while she can browse the web on the other smaller one.

I've seen it done before, as well as having the game spread over both monitors with different resolutions, but i've never done this before and Google isn't helping at all right now.

So if anybody has any experience setting this sort of thing up and can recommend and settings/programs for Dual Monitor please give me a shout

[Mousey]

go to your display settings, default setting should be to have different windows on each monitor.

[Xan]

Yeah.

But you have to constantly switch between primary and secondary monitor for opening every window.

Not to mention that Fullscreen games default on the primary smaller LCD no matter what. I've tried it as well.


Managed to set this up easy in Ubuntu, and you could easy right click and send Windows to the other desktop with a mouse click away.

On Windows you have to open the icon after you set it to Secondary and then set it back to Primary to open another Window.

Plus a couple of icons just went missing in the endless desktop abyss.

[Phil]

It shouldnt be so difficult.. First of all, may i suggest downloading Ultramon (http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/), its a great little software, that enables windows to run with multiple taskbars, each on their own screen and each with the windows open on that screen shown in the respective taskbar. Thus keeping the desktop much more organized.

Then.. in order to run a game in one monitor while browsing the internet/messaging in the other, you need the game to run in windowed mode, otherwise you'll have to tab, inorder to move the mouse away from the game, and onto the second monitor.

http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/

Furthermore, in windows, you'll have to set either of the connected screens to primary, and thus the other to secondary. As you said yourself, any fullscreen app, will default to the primary.

Hope this clearifies something, otherwise, ask away and i shall try to answer with my best answer.

[Xan]

You've given me enough to go on, and i'll Ultramon a try tomorrow (Today, 6am here).

Mousey, Phil. Thanks for helping me out on this, my thanks and my rep more i can't give.