If you use multiple monitors and are tired of seeing your background wallpaper repeated on both screens, a utility you might be interested in is DisplayFusion. With DisplayFusion you can add a taskbar to every monitor that works and looks just like the Windows Taskbar. Or take advantage of advanced multi-monitor wallpaper support, Flickr integration for image...

If you want to use multiple monitors, you either have to have a graphics card which supports it or a laptop capable of handling this. Typically this allows you to have two monitors plugged in at one time, but what if you want more? A device which makes this possible is is a USB to VGA/DVI adapter (NewEgg link). I recently gave this one a shot with my laptop and...

If you work with multiple monitors regularly and then switch back to a single monitor, you may find that some of your applications open in the additional (now nonexistent) monitor. If you find this is the case, there are a couple of tricks I have found which work:If you can only see part of the application window, try resizing the window by dragging one of the...

When it comes to monitor setup, there seems to be two schools of thought – multiple or one big widescreen. Both have their pros and cons. For example, multiple monitors makes it easy to facilitate the use of multiple programs (snapping to a monitor) at once while a big widescreen allows a lot of ‘real estate’ for desktop space or movie...

A problem with using multiple monitors in Windows is you can only have your taskbar across the bottom of one of them. While this isn’t a huge inconvenience, it can be a nuisance nonetheless. If you find this behavior annoying, take a look at Oscar’s Multi-Monitor Taskbar. This free program creates a taskbar along the bottom of each of your monitors...

I have been using more than one monitor on my computer for years. Once I read that Windows could indeed handle more than one video card, the light bulbs went off. I can have more than one screen? I shortly went out and purchased a second screen. When I switched to the Mac Pro back in October, the system came with a single video card with two video outs. But, I...

I have completed my hardware upgrades to the new Mac Pro. The system is now sporting 5 GB of memory as well as a second video card. That second video card now gives me the ability to expand beyond two monitors. Since I had plenty of LCDs sitting around, I decided to put them to use. I now have FOUR monitors attached to my Mac Pro. Why? Because I can. But, now...

Rich takes us step by step through hardware and software methods of sharing your screen with two monitors. This is video 1 of...

A quick video guide to setting up dual screens on your PC. We talk about two screens on a laptop (which is pretty easy), multiple desktops using a cool PowerToy from Microsoft (called Virtual Desktop Manager), and setting up dual screens on your Windows XP desktop machine. And at the end you get a little look at David’s three-screen...