Changing Background of the second monitor connected to a windows computer can be at the same times tough or easy. Windows allow to set a single wallpaper and this wallpaper will span all the monitors depending on the settings defined to control whether it should be tiled, center or stretched and Windows 7 adds another option which says Fit to Monitor.
On a Dual Monitor Windows Computer, the alignment of the monitors is also controllable using Windows Control Panel. When you do not want to use the second monitor, you may turn off second monitor or at many times you may want only one wallpaper to span across all the monitors. Now there is an automation software which allows to automatically manage wallpaper onto the second monitor.
Managing Second Monitor Wallpaper is provided by a 3rd party software named MurGeeMon. The Software displays a graphical user interface to change and manage wallpapers on dual monitors similar to Windows 7′s Monitor background control panel option. In similarity to the Change Monitor background option of Windows 7, the MurGeeMon software provides a similar interface with few extra options to manage wallpapers on dual monitors. The Software provides adds on following options as compared to default Monitor Background option :-
- Single click to select the new monitor background by clicking on the background image’s thumbnails.
- Provides selectable folder locations to select a wallpaper from and also provides option to choose solid colors as monitor background.
- Option to specify whether dual monitors should have different wallpapers or a single wallpaper.
- When configured to have seperate wallpapers for seperate monitors, allows to select orientation for each of the background image, the available options for background image orientation on selected monitor are Tile, Fit to Monitor and Centre.
- Allows you to control what happens to the monitor background image when you disable the second monitor. This option can be controlled by enabling or disabling the Wallpaper Controller option check box.
- Provides few image processing capabilities such as converting the selected monitor background image to Grey Scale or to Rotate it to Right or to Left.
- Allows to set the selected monitor background image at Login Screen of Windows 7 and works on both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows 7.
- Displays how many images were found at the selected folder location which can be set as background image for first or second monitor.
With this Dual Monitor Manager Software named MurGeeMon, changing your first or second monitor background can be really easy and with full control. Just select the background image and set it onto any monitor as you desire. In case you have a dual monitor background image, just select the option to have a single background image to span across both the monitors or if you want to have two different background images on each of the first and second monitors, just select the monitor and then select the background image. The Software will give you complete control over your Monitor’s background images and yes the extra image processing options can further enhance your background image handling for both the monitors (i.e. the First or Primary Monitor and the Second or Secondary Monitor).