Is this possible?

Cheekykid · 2 May 2009 at 03:54

To have 1 card handle 2 screens where on one there is a screensaver playing and on the other windows desktop. Any other way i could achieve this without having to have 2 pcs? Thanks

dbmzk1 · 2 May 2009 at 05:13

The only ways that I know of would to be run the .exe directly if the particular screensaver supports that, or to play a video of the screensaver, or use something like Vista DreamScene.

I do have to ask though... what is the point of a second monitor if it's just displaying a screensaver? Why not just turn it off when it's not in use?

Cheekykid · 2 May 2009 at 13:13

dbmzk1 said:
The only ways that I know of would to be run the .exe directly if the particular screensaver supports that, or to play a video of the screensaver, or use something like Vista DreamScene.

I do have to ask though... what is the point of a second monitor if it's just displaying a screensaver? Why not just turn it off when it's not in use?

It's for a business environment and i want the 2nd monitor to run something specialized which must be "live" from a pc and cant be prerecorded.

J.B · 2 May 2009 at 16:51

Could have a virtual machine running fullscreen on the second monitor, bit of an extreme solution to an odd problem.