dual monitors- returning to desktop from fullscreen when interacting on second screen

joeconway

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having just bought my second monitor and started running dual monitors I'm loving it.

however I'm finding it quite annoying how if I'm playing a game on my 22" with my msn windows open on my 19"; the 22" will return to the desktop as soon as i interact with anything on the 19", which is fair enough and it seems like this would obviously be what it should do normally. but is there any way to stop it doing this?

P.S. I'm running vista 32 if that helps in anyway
 
joeconway said:
having just bought my second monitor and started running dual monitors I'm loving it.

however I'm finding it quite annoying how if I'm playing a game on my 22" with my msn windows open on my 19"; the 22" will return to the desktop as soon as i interact with anything on the 19", which is fair enough and it seems like this would obviously be what it should do normally. but is there any way to stop it doing this?

P.S. I'm running vista 32 if that helps in anyway
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I'm not sure I understand completely the probelm, but try fliping your screens around (virtually) I.E , say you have ON YOUR DESK, the 19 inch and then the 22 inch from left to right, TELL WINDOWS you have the 22 inch on the left and the 19 on the right. This is the way I used to work and it means you have to move the mouse off the left edge of the left screen to come onto the right edge of the right screen and vice versa. It's actually very preferable. It also means you can tuck windows 'underneath' the screen border in the middle, and have windows wrapped around the extreme edges of your desktop area (i.e. at your peripheral vision)

It's different, give it a shot.
 
yeah, you don't understand the problem.

It's just that if im running a game full screen on monitor 1 and I interact with a window on monitor 2, I.E. type something in an msn window; then the fullscreen game will minimize.

Thanks anyway though
 
joeconway said:
yeah, you don't understand the problem.

It's just that if im running a game full screen on monitor 1 and I interact with a window on monitor 2, I.E. type something in an msn window; then the fullscreen game will minimize.

Thanks anyway though
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Ahh OK.

I used to do that fine but then I was using A) Win2k. B) a Separate GFX card for each screen .

Does vista support 2 independant screens, but NOT extended across? I.e taskbar only on 'primary' screen?
 
whitecrook said:
Does vista support 2 independant screens, but NOT extended across? I.e taskbar only on 'primary' screen?
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Not as far as I can tell...that would be pretty good if it could, im using something atm called ultramon to extend the taskbar across, its great but doing what you suggested would be even better if anyone knows how to do it?


whitecrook said:
B) a Separate GFX card for each screen .
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can anyone confirm if this would mean i could have 2 desktops on vista?I've never heard of this being a solution but if it was then I'll definately fork out for a cheapo pci-e card.....
 
Most of my multi monitor experience ( i was running 2x21 inch + 17 inch triple head for a while no problems) comes from win2k / XP and Matrox cards. Matrox cards are well known for their ability to 'do' multihead/multiscreen etc.

However I was running Nivida card + matrox cards for a while with no problems, the matrox drivers are really good. They offer the option within to have multiple cards/heads to appear as one large desktop to windows, or as separate 'screens' onto the one desktop. Basic differences with this are as already mentioned, but nice things such as maximize will maximize to the screen rather than the desktop etc. (+ a whole lot more)

I believe the Ultramon tool basically covers this for other setups and stuff, but even back then I used a couple of ATI cards for a while and there drivers supported a bunch of stuff. Recently I have tested out some updated nvidia drivers and they have funky features like that as well.


In summary, I think I have talked myself in to the conclusion of waiting for updated Vista gfx card drivers :)))
 
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