Dual Monitor Hardware & Software

Automatic Wallpaper Changer for Dual Monitor Computer

February 15, 2010 | Author: admin

How about a Wallpaper Changer for Dual Monitors? What would you like to have in a Dual Monitor Wallpaper Changer?

Have a look at the given below wallpaper changer which is a simple and easy to use wallpaper changer which does supports dual monitors.

Wallpaper Changer which supports Dual Monitors

The Wallpaper Changer displayed here can be used to change wallpaper of each of the dual monitors automatically at configured intervals. The Dual Monitor Wallpaper Changer provides a way to change the Monitor wallpaper in many different ways. Configurable duration to change wallpaper automatically is one of the features. You can also specify whether you would like to have different wallpaper on each of the dual monitors or you would like to have the same wallpaper on both of the Monitors.

Indeed the different wallpaper on each of the dual monitor would be effective only when your Monitors are configured to be in Extended Mode where as in Clone Mode, you will have option of chanaging Wallpaper of only one Monitor (as in Clone Mode the same output would be displayed on both of the Monitors)

However in extended mode you will have two options :-

Configure different Wallpaper for every Monitor or have only one Wallpaper spanning across the Dual Monitors.

Sounds great? How about leaving a comment or anything else you would like to have in this Dual Monitor Wallpaper Changer. In case you would like to change Wallpaper for each of the Dual Monitors from a selectable list and not in an automatic way, the post Wallpaper Changer for Dual Monitors can be of help.

Powerpoint Presentation with Dual Monitors

February 14, 2010 | Author: admin

Wanna give out a presentation using Power Point or Power Point Viewer? Given below points may be useful & informative. Depending on your Operating System and your computer’s hardware, you can utilize the power of having dual monitor hardware connected to your computer and give yout your power point presentation.

Dual Monitors on Windows can work in many different ways on a windows computer. The way in which the external monitor or projector can display depends on how you have configured your computer’s settings. Let’s call the settings controlling display of computer and projector as mode.

Windows can drive dual monitors or other display devices in many modes. Given below is a short description which can be helpful to understand your computer’s working.

Clone Mode : This is the mode or way in which the display of your computer will be visible on both of the Monitors or Display Devices connected to the computer. Here an important thing to note is that the maximum resolution of the clone mode will be the minimum resolution supported by any of the Display Device and associated hardware. Now in case you have a Projector connected to your computer, then in this mode you will be able to see the same computer’s output on your computer screen and on projector as well. The Document Clone Mode talks more in detail about the Clone Mode.
Extended Mode : Here with dual monitors connected to your computer, you will get more desktop area or in other words you desktop will encompass two monitor’s screens. In order to move mouse cursor to the second monitor, you will need to move the mouse cursor in the direction where your next monitor is connected virtually to your primary monitor. The Extended ModeDocument talks in more detail about the mode and discusses possible uses of the mode.
Projector Only : Now here the name may be different in other documents or technical papers but the concept is that in this mode the output of the computer is displayed only on the external display device (which can be a Monitor or a Projector). The Keyboard and Mouse work as normal and you will be able to do normal computer operations, however in case the external display device is a projector projecting onto a screen or something, you will have to look to the projection in order to move mouse or do some typing etc instead of looking onto your Computer’s Monitor.
Computer Monitor Only : Just like the Projector only mode, here the output of the computer would be visible only on your computer’s monitor and the external display device (projector or secondary monitor) would be disabled. By saying disabled here i mean to say that the secondary display device would not display anything and will go into low power state, depending on your hardware your secondary device may have an LED indicator to indicate the low power state.

Does above information sounds useful and something like you can use when doing the next presentation with Power Point or with any other Software? Do you wish that if you could have some software feature or some software utility that could help you when giving out presentations, leave a comment here and we will try to provide the feature to you.

Dual Monitor Background Wallpapers

February 9, 2010 | Author: admin

For a Dual Monitor Computer, you can find lots of Dual Monitor Wallpapers on Internet. The Dual Monitor Background Wallpapers are nothing but images (.jpg, etc) of big width and height. Depending on the Website from which you are downloading the Dual Monitor Background image, you may get option of image size selection as well.

Advantages of Dual Monitor Background Wallpaper : A Single Image to span across your dual monitors when your computer’s output is in extended mode will give you the view of your dual monitors as single monitor. Imagine a Dual Monitor background image of a train spanning across your dual Monitors, how magnificent it can be.

Disadvantages of Dual Monitor Background Wallpaper : The Dual Monitor Background image will really look great if your both of the monitors are running in same resolution, however if you have connected a high resolution monitor and a low resolution monitor in extended mode, the background wallpaper may be difficult to show it’s full effect and the wallpaper image may be visible partially.

Alternative to a Single Image spanning Dual Monitors : Select different wallpaper for each of the Dual Monitors for your Dual Monitor Computer using MurGeeMon which is a Dual Monitor Software offering lots of features for controlling your dual monitors.

Force Window on Second Monitor

January 28, 2010 | Author: admin

Yes now you can set any Application Window to forcibly open on Second Monitor or even at any defined location. You only need to define the co-ordinates in terms of X & Y and set it as the forced screen location. The Forced Screen Location can be on Second Monitor, at your primary Monitor or any other Monitor whose X & Y Co-Ordinates you know or can find out.

Forcing Application Window, Chat Window or any other Window to any defined location is made possible by the Dual Monitor Software named as MurGeeMon. The Window Relocator Screenshot suggests how to configure Window Location selectable using Window Title.

Force Window to Open on Second Monitor

All you would need to do is open the Window Relocator, Select the Window which you wish to open at defined X & Y Co-Ordinates, enter the X & Y Co-Ordinates and click on the button labelled Set, that’s it.

Now you can close the Window Relocator Window of MurGeeMon and can also click on the cross button of the MurGeeMon. Now Onwards whenever the selected window will open, it will open at the defined co-ordinates. In case you entered the co-ordinates which are located at your Second Monitor, then your Window will open on the Second Monitor at defined co-ordinates.

In case you do wish to remove the forciby opening of a Window on defined co-ordinates, just click on the Window Title and click on Remove Button. The Refresh button can be used to scan & populate the list with visible Windows.

Turn Off Second Monitor

January 27, 2010 | Author: admin

There are many ways by which you can turn off second monitor connected to your Dual Monitor Computer offered by Dual Monitor Software. You can opt for any or multiple ways to turn off second monitor, available options are listed below:-

System Wide Hot Key Combination to be pressed on Keyboard to Turn Off Second Monitor.
Turn Off Second Monitor by launching a Shortcut on Desktop, Start Menu or Quick Launch Bar.
Right Click on blank space on Desktop and select Turn Off Second Monitor.
Use Command Line to Turn Off Second Monitor.
Right Click on Icon of the Dual Monitor Software and select the option to Turn Off Second Monitor.

Now in order to Turn On the Second Monitor anytime you want, all you would need to do is follow the same process which you followed (any of the above) to Turn Off the Monitor. So effectively all the options above will work as a toggle switch, which would imply that all of the options above would check whether the Monitor of On or Off and when you initiate the change, the Monitor’s state would be toggled.

In a nutshell, when your Second Monitor is Off any of the options above would Turn it ON and vice versa.

Windows Media Center on Second Monitor

January 26, 2010 | Author: admin

Now you can Launch Windows Media Center on Second Monitor in Full Screen with a simple Desktop Shortcut. The Dual Monitor Shortcut can be created using System tray Menu of the Dual Monitor Software MurGeeMon.

Media Center Second Monitor

Once you have created the Shortcut, you can always launch the shortcut to launch Windows Media Center in full screen mode on the Second or Last Monitor of your Dual or Multiple Monitor Computer. In case you would like to launch the Windows Media center in Full Screen Mode by pressing some shortcut key combination on keyboard, you can do so by any of the given below two options:-

Assign Keyboard Shortcut using the Shortcut’s properties OR
Navigate to Settings Tab of MurGeeMon and configure the shortcut key combination.

The first procedure outlined above will allow you have shortcut key combinations such as Ctr+Alt+ Some other Key combination whereas the second procedure outlined above will give you total flexibility in selecting the shortcut key.

In case you have Dual Monitors connected to your computer, the shortcut will launch Windows Media Center on Second Monitor, whereas if you do have 3 Monitors connected to your computer then this shortcut will launch Windows Media Center in Full Screen Mode on the third Monitor.

This Dual Monitor Shortcut will switch the computer into extended mode which may mean enabling your second monitor or switching from clone mode to extended mode automatically and then it will launch Windows Media Center and will move it to the second monitor or last monitor on a multiple monitor computer and will finally maximize Windows Media Center to Full Screen Mode.

Dual Monitor Shortcut

January 26, 2010 | Author: admin

Desktop Shortcuts have been really versatile way of using & launching various Windows Features. Shortcuts allow to launch applications, open existing documents and much more. The Shortcuts can be moved around and placed at a suitable location on the computer such as programs menu, quick launch bar or at Windows Desktop.

Dual Monitor Shortcuts will allow you to control various features of your Dual Monitor Computer running Windows Operating System. The Dual Monitor Shortcuts will allow you to enable second monitor at the launch which can be your TV or any other display device, another shortcut will allow you to disable the second or secondary monitor so that you can control your dual monitors easily & quickly.

Dual Monitor Shortcut

The Dual Monitor Shortcut can be created using the Dual Monitor Software named as MurGeeMon. The Software displays an icon in system tray and has a full window based user interface. In order to create a Dual Monitor Shortcut, right click on the System Tray Icon and select Create Dual Monitor Shortcut to launch a window where you can select what you want your Dual Monitor Shortcut to do, select the appropriate option and then click on OK to create the shortcut on Desktop. Once the Shortcut has been created, you can move it to any location just like any other Shortcut and you can even assign keyboard shortcut to it using Shortcut properties.

The Dual Monitor Shortcut can be used to Change Monitor Resolution, Change DPI of Monitor, Rotate Display Clockwise or Anti Clock Wise, Change Primary Monitor, Enable Second Monitor, Disable Second Monitor, Launch configured ScreenSaver, Show Display Settings, Show Desktop, Launch Media Center on Second Monitor in full screen mode, Switch to Windows Classic theme, Display Switch User Screen , Move foreground Window to Second or Next Monitor and much more is there providing you full control over your Monitor related activites.

While creating the Dual Monitor Shortcut, you can even opt for adding the Shortcut to Right Click Menu of Desktop which can be another useful and handy feature to control your Dual Monitors running on a Windows Computer.

Screen Resolution Shortcut

January 21, 2010 | Author: admin

Wanna Change Screen Resolution with a Shortcut on Desktop? In case yes, this is a good place to start with.

Screen Resolution Shortcut to change screen resolution to 1600 X 900

This Screen Resolution Shortcut has been created to change the Screen Resolution to 1600 X 900 and it also changes the bits per pixel to 32 and Monitor Frequency to 60Hz. You can create many such screen resolution changing shortcut(s) which will allow you to change the screen resolution by launching the shortcut. The Shortcut can be placed anywhere, let’s say on Desktop or Quick Launch bar and it can be assigned Shortcut Keys so that you can launch the screen resolution changing shortcut by pressing shortcut keys on keyboard.

This Screen Resolution Shortcut can be created for any Windows Operating System. Be the Windows Operating System may be Windows 7, Vista or even Windows XP. Just launch the shortcut to set the screen resolution according to your requirement. Now you would not need to go to control panel and struggle with Screen Resolution or Display Resolution conrtol panel again and again. The shortcut can be created to either change temporarily the screen resolution (which would mean that if you do log off, the screen resolution would be reverted to the old screen resolution) and the resolution changes can be done permanently (which would mean that unless you change the screen resolution again, the screen resolution would be changed to the new screen resolution).

You can even use the shortcut to change only DPI setting of a Computer screen by selecting the default or original screen resolution and by selecting a different DPI. 8, 16 and 32 DPI or Bits per pixel are supported. Sounds interesting ? And yes when you create the Screen Resolution shortcut, you will get an option to select any of the Dual Monitors connected to your computer.

Wanna give it a try, just navigate to Resolution Controller document and download the Dual Monitor Software which does offers many other useful functionalities to control your Computer Screen.

Dual Monitor Support

January 13, 2010 | Author: admin

Now a days all the operating Systems have become really sophisticated and the latest ones must be supporting dual monitors. Writer of this blog entry has information about Windows only upto this date and hence can only talk about about Dual Monitor Support with Windows. Yes Latest Windows Operating Systems do support having Dual Monitors with your Computer, be it Laptop or Desktop Computer.

Dual Monitor Support in Windows 7

Windows provides Dual Monitor support starting with Windows Control Panel. The Windows Control panel allows to configure and move Monitors around in a virtual space. You can even enable or disable any of the connected Monitor(s) from the Control Panel. The options available are to control the Monitor Resolution, select whether to clone or to extend the display, select whether to display the counputer output in Landscape or Portrait format and position monitor location in the big virtual desktop space. Other Windows Operating Systems such as Windows Vista, and XP also supported connecting Dual Monitors with a Windows Computer.

In case you would like to get Dual Monitor Support from Software perspective such as asking about some specific functionality (let’s say Can I Enable or Disable Monitors with a Desktop Shortcut) which is not available with Windows and you would like to use a Dual Monitor Software Utility for the purpose, you can visit Dual Monitor Forum which has been designed for a Dual Monitor Software and has many easy to view & follow questions and answers related to having custom functionalities such as Dual Monitor Shortcut, Hot Key Combinations to automate repetitive tasks and much more.

Dual Monitor Wallpaper Changer

January 13, 2010 | Author: admin

How about having a different Wallpaper on each of your Dual Monitors? In case that does sounds good, have a look at the given below image which displays a Wallpaper Changer for Dual Monitors.

Wallpaper / Background Changer for Dual Monitors

The Software lists images in a list in the format of thumbnails and also displays a Monitor Selection drop down.

In Order to change Wallpaper for a Monitor, all you would need to do is select the Monitor from the dropdown and then click on an image and that’s it. The Selected image will be set as Wallpaper for your selected Monitor.

In the same way you can select the other Monitor and then select a seperate wallpaper.

Download the Dual Monitor Wallpaper Changer now and have seperate wallpaper images for your dual monitors. Post a comment here if you would like to have another feature in the Wallpaper Changer and use your Dual Monitor in more better way.

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