Vista dual monitor card

However, one is black and one is silver. Anyway, now with the new dual monitor setup I wanted to find a way to extend my desktop to other desktop. By extend my desktop I mean instead of just having an extra monitor and being able to drag things over to it; I wanted to extend my taskbar over to the additional monitor. So I looked in the desktop properties where you change your resolution, etc.

After a bit of searching I stumbled across something called UltraMon. This piece of software is exactly what I wanted. Not only does it allow you to extend your taskbar, but you can do so much more. The feature I use it for mostly is the Smart Taskbar which extends my taskbar. Talk about more screen real estate. Note: If you have Vista make sure you download the newest version of UltraMon which is currently in Beta but seems to be stable. I have had no issues with it. It looks like an incompatibility issue among the drivers.

For more information, go to the device manufacturer's website or contact your retailer. You can try to use the latest driver for that card. If it doesn't help, I'm afraid you need a new video card in this scenario. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? SQL Server. Sign in. United States English. I sent the help post this morning without trying the setup again.

I went to take a snapshot of the properties page to show you that I only had one setting for the resolution and what do you know! I now have two monitors in the WinXP properties page! The reboot from yesterday to today must have allowed XP to reconfigure itself. All is good. Thanks cosmicnut! I have tried to do this unsuccesfully. The nvidia CP recognizes both as does Vista's monitor settings screen. I have "attached" the secondary monitor TV in the settings area and I can change resolution setting on both monitors.

But still no picture on the TV at any resolution. I have also tried "clone" mode in the CP. Sounds to me like its a problem on the TV end. Make sure the settings are in range and your in the right mode on the TV. Try connecting the TV as the only monitor, this should force the graphics card to go via that source only. Mar I have a Quadro FX with dual outputs. It works, but the nVidia software treats both monitors as one large monitor, so there is only one resolution setting.

And that setting is capped at the max number of pixels on the smallest monitor, no matter which port they are plugged into or which monitor is identified as the primary.

The same blur any LCD monitor running out of its native resolution experiences. Has anyone successfully set up two different size monitors with a dual output card and run them each at their native resolution?