rossored
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Osho, I have put a guide to installing two monitors on the T2W Guide to Techies Corner, if you'd like to read that. Its a compilation of some independant stuff, plus all the useful threads from this website. That ought to keep you busy.
http://www.trade2win.co.uk/boards/showthread.php?t=8586
http://www.trade2win.co.uk/boards/showthread.php?t=8586
Dear Rossored
When I click properties and settings in the monitor selection I only get default monitor choice. I am using Win 2000. Do I get choice for 2nd monitor after I have actually connected the monitor?
Somebody said I will have the same page on the second monitor. Is this correct-probably not as there is no point of having the same information on two monitors. Your help much appreciated.
2nd Monitor does not mean I am becoming more successful -rather it is opposite of that !!!!!
When I click properties and settings in the monitor selection I only get default monitor choice. I am using Win 2000. Do I get choice for 2nd monitor after I have actually connected the monitor?
Somebody said I will have the same page on the second monitor. Is this correct-probably not as there is no point of having the same information on two monitors. Your help much appreciated.
2nd Monitor does not mean I am becoming more successful -rather it is opposite of that !!!!!
If your video cards supports 2 monitor, then you will have specific software drivers to manage them. Win2K and XP will display the same screen on both. Your video driver will allow your mouse to 'overflow' from one screen to the other, and ought to allow you to define application by application which screen they display in. Plus other goodies like individual screensavers etc may also be possible.
Hope this helps.
David
Hope this helps.
David
osho67 said:
Thanks Buddhist.
Rossored has mentioned that on a laptop you just connect another monitor , go to properties-sttings and click for 2nd monitor. I donot get that choice- I only get default monitor choice. Anyway If I get the same page on both of them , I donot want a second monitor. I thought on one I can have a chart from QT and on another IB page .I hope this clarifies. I havnt got a second monitor as yet.
Rossored has mentioned that on a laptop you just connect another monitor , go to properties-sttings and click for 2nd monitor. I donot get that choice- I only get default monitor choice. Anyway If I get the same page on both of them , I donot want a second monitor. I thought on one I can have a chart from QT and on another IB page .I hope this clarifies. I havnt got a second monitor as yet.
Pleasure. I dont think I have seen any laptops with dual monitor support, mainly due to the heat problem with dual-support graphics cards. With all laptops I have seen, a socket for an external monitor only allows you to slave the external off the internal or to replace it. In either event you cant put a different window on each.
May be wrong but I dont think so....
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May be wrong but I dont think so....
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osho67 said:
rossored
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Buddhist said:
Sorry for not replying, have only just seen this update.
This is incorrect. If you attach a second monitor to the back of any laptop via what is normally the projector port (15-pin), right click on the desktop area and go to Properties --> Settings and enable the second monitor (click the "2" symbol") , then click "Extend my desktop onto this monitor", you CAN have seperate windows on each screen. It IS NOT a duplicate of what exists on the main screen.
I'm doing this as we speak, and I've done it for 18 months or more on this laptop with no problems regarding overheating or anything else.
Hope this helps.
