Yesterday’s tip went into setting up a 3-display system. Today, I will bring to light a utility for helping you get the most out of such a setup. That utility is UltraMon. UltraMon can allow you to quickly move windows acrosss monitors, assign certain applications to certain screens, span a wallpaper across all screens or use a different one for each, use a different screen saver for each screen, etc. There are a lot of cool things you can do which Windows will not do by default with a multi-monitor setup.
The program is free for a 30-day trial, then $39.95 to license it. For more info, head to RealTime Soft.
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On a new HP dual core Pentium E2200/ Intel on-board graphics 3100, 1 PCI, 2 PCI 1 and 1 PCI express 16 running Vista Home Premium, I want to run 3 monitors. Will the NVIDIA powered dual monitor graphics care work with the on-board graphics. I understand they all have to run the same device driver, a WDDM (Windows Device Driver Model).
I know that on an 8 year old Intel board the on-board graphics and the AGP port were mutually exclusive but it worked well with old Matrox boards in two PCI slots.