dual monitors - system tray??

wingnuttzz · 7 Sep 2008 at 14:50

hi guys

currently using UltraMon to span my taskbar accross my dual monitor's but i find it annoying having my systemtray on the first montior

is there any way to move it to the second monitor so it looks like a proper extended desktop etc

Grant

DarkShadow · 7 Sep 2008 at 15:26

The only way is to span it one huge desktop instead of having dualview.

You'll soon get used to it

t31os · 7 Sep 2008 at 15:44

Unlock the taskabr and drag it across to the other screen. Worked like that last time i used it.

wingnuttzz · 7 Sep 2008 at 16:02

mmm, that works to get the system tray over, but now my start button and quick launch is on my second monitor and i want them on the first....

Burnsy2023 · 7 Sep 2008 at 16:05

dark_shadow said:
The only way is to span it one huge desktop instead of having dualview.

You'll soon get used to it

I've used both dualview and span and I much prefer dualview. Especially when you want to maximize any windows etc. You can't dual span in Vista due to WDDM constraints anyway.

Burnsy

t31os · 7 Sep 2008 at 16:09

If you want the systray and start menu on seperate screens then you're out of luck without spanning.

You'd be looking for a way to strip out the code for the systray in the start menu and place it somewhere else, in this case another taskbar.

Not possible as things stand i don't think....

wingnuttzz · 7 Sep 2008 at 16:25

ahh, kk
guess i will get used to it soon, never getting rid of dual monitors though, couldn't live with-out it now
thanks anyway guys.

t31os · 7 Sep 2008 at 19:28

wingnuttzz said:
never getting rid of dual monitors though, couldn't live with-out it now
thanks anyway guys.

I felt the same until i get the 24", pwns the 2 x 19" previously....

Just have to find ways to use a bit of screen management.

I use a few apps for doing just that.

Switcher for switching between windows.
http://insentient.net/

4t tray minimizer for Minimizing a window to the sytray.
http://www.4t-niagara.com/tray.html

Alpha Blender (transparency on any window - adjustable via hotkey)
http://www.vaultmate.com/FreewareGifts.html

I assume you either code or have some other use for dual screens. I do like dual screens to, but they do have a few drawbacks also.

wingnuttzz · 7 Sep 2008 at 20:06

are all those little programs not already built into windows vista???

don't do much programming at the moment, but that's about to change soon again (got a project up coming), but i do a bit of web design which also involves a lot of photoshop.
my main reason for dual monitors though, is just the extra workspace. Its just convient being able to have media player on 1 screen and web broswer on the other for example
or in games i can have game on one screen and on the second screen hamachi and system monitoring programs.

looking to replace one of my monitros (i have a 21" and 19" CRT at the moment) with a 22" samsung Aqua, but i can't see me loosing the dual monitor set-up