Run Screen Saver on Second , Third or any other Monitor

The Screen Saver in a Box application allows to run Screen Saver in a Window which can be maximised normally or in full screen mode. In order to run Screen Saver on second monitor on a Dual Monitor Windows Computer, all you need to do is specify the screen saver, move it to the second monitor by dragging the title bar (as you would drag any other windows application) and finally switch to full screen mode using menu or shortcut key combination F11.

The Screen Saver running in the window works by displaying preview of the screen saver. Many Screen Savers have live preview feature enabled for the screen saver, The live preview in turn means that the screen saver will run normally in the window as it would run in full screen mode.

Another thing to notice while running screen saver on second monitor using Screen Saver in a box is that the Screen Saver will not exit due to mouse movement or keyboard event. In order to close the screen saver, you will have to close the screen saver application. In case the Screen Saver is running in full screen mode, you can exit the screen saver by toggling the full screen mode by pressing F11 and then closing the windowed application by clicking on the top right cross button, you can even right click on the tray icon and click on close.

Download the Dual Monitor Software, Install it on your Windows 32 or 64 bit computer, launch the Screen Saver in Box application from Programs Menu or navigate to the Screen Saver tab and click on the button which reads Screen Saver on One Monitor. There are other lots of useful functionalities offered by the software, have a look at the Dual Monitor Software Feature List and take complete control over your dual or multiple monitors connected to your windows computer.

As of thing writing there are 26 command line options which can be used on a Windows XP or Windows Vista Computer. However on a Windows 7 computer few extra command line option will be available. The command line options work in number something like Program.exe 1 or MyProgram.exe 2, etc. The numbers specify the command to be executed from a list of options to control a single, dual or multi monitor windows computer.

A typical installation of the dual monitor software MurGeeMon may be installed as “C:\Program Files\MurGeeMon\MurGeeMon.exe”. Now the program supports various command line options such as

1 This option will change the primary monitor on a dual monitor extended windows computer,

2  This will disable Primary Monitor and will make the Secondary Monitor as Primary Monitor,

3 This command line option will toggle the state of Secondary Monitor, in case the secondary monitor is disabled it will enable it or if it is enabled it will disable it,

and so on

In case you do wish to use the command line to disable all secondary monitors from a batch (.bat) file, you can add an entry to the batch file something like as given below

“C:\Program Files\MurGeeMon\MurGeeMon.exe” 4

Note : In case the software has been installed in any other folder, you would need to change the program path in the batch file.

Another easy way to get the correct command line option is to create a dual monitor shortcut on desktop using the option Create Dual Monitor Shortcut, Right click on the desktop shortcut, Select Properties , Navigate to the Shortcut tab and copy the Target path of the shortcut.