• The Second Monitor can display the same display as displayed by the First or Main Monitor referred to as clone mode.
• The Second Monitor or any other Display device connected as second display can display part of the Desktop Area and allow you to move application or document window onto second monitor. When a Monitor or other display device works in this way, it can be named as extended mode.
• The Second Monitor can be turned off and effectively providing display output to only one monitor, even though physically there are two Monitors connected to the Computer.

Now when the second monitor is turned off, it will remain inactive untill it is turned on. The Monitor can have electricity connection and the Monitor will go into low power mode and Windows will display desktop or any application or program Window only on main monitor.

Desktop Shortcut to turn off second monitor on a dual monitor Windows pc

Control Panel’s Display Settings can be used to turn off the second monitor. In Windows 7, you can right click on Desktop to display the Display Settings option and turn off the second monitor. However in Windows Vista or Windows XP, just open the control panel and look for Display Settings where you can turn on and off the second monitor.

In case you would like to have turn off the second monitor easily with various options such as Desktop Shortcut, System Wide HotKey combination or from System Tray, you can have a look at the inexpensive and free to try Dual Monitor Software. In the Software the term used to turn off second monitor is Disable Secondary Monitor and in order to turn on the monitor, the term used would be Enable Secondary Monitor.

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.

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.