Problem with 2 monitors and Skyrim

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So I have a 2 monitor setup and usually in games when I'm playing full screen the cursor will be locked into the primary monitor which the game is being played on. If I want to use my secondary monitor, I'll usually have to tab out or change the game to windowed. With Skyrim it's different though, and even on fullscreen the cursor isn't locked to the primary screen and I can freely move the cursor into the 2nd monitor. This means that when I'm in combat, it makes it incredibly difficult to fight something without minimizing the game multiple times due to the cursor being on the second monitor and me clicking to attack. It's very annoying and makes it almost unplayable... so I'm looking for a fix :(
I tried using this cursorlock program but it seems like I can't use the SKSE Launcher with it?
 
http://dualmonitortool.sourceforge.net/

This allows you to set a hotkey to lock the mouse so it can't go to the second screen when gaming, Swap Screen is the tool and set a hotkey.

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Having problems with that program now. Just doesn't seem to be working >.<
It works when I'm on the desktop and I can't move onto the second monitor, but when skyrim is open it just won't have it
 
I use the Win Key + P to select just the main monitor screen when I play. Then reverse it when I've finished. Simple and works ;)
But if you really, REALLY must have your 2nd monitor available at all times, then that isn't the solution for you
 
Skyrim has always been dodgy for tabbing out and using 2 screens for me.
Tabbing out sometimes leaves the windows icon for the mouse moving slowly around my screen instead of the Skyrim one.

Eventually learnt to stay in the game and not to tab out aha!
 
ThaReaperGuy said:
Skyrim has always been dodgy for tabbing out and using 2 screens for me.
Tabbing out sometimes leaves the windows icon for the mouse moving slowly around my screen instead of the Skyrim one.

Eventually learnt to stay in the game and not to tab out aha!
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It's not that I want to actually tab out, it's that in the majority of the games the cursor is locked in fullscreen mode to the monitor that it's being played on, and in Skyrim it isn't, so particularly in combat, I'll end up accidentally minimizing the game because I've used the left mouse button to swing my weapon with the cursor being in the monitor that isn't being played.
 
I figured out a neat little trick, dunno if anyone knows about it? But if i go into the steam overlay while gaming fullscreen, it allows me to move the cursor to the second screen, click the second screen, and then Skyrim minimizes. I figured this out while playing Skyrim, but i use it in all games.

Sometimes when you go back into Skyrim it gives a black screen, but 99% of the time if i do the minimize trick twice in a row, it brings the game back.
 
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