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Old 12-29-2009, 01:48 PM   #1
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Screensaver for multiple monitors.

Hello all!

I just got W7 about a week ago and I've been trying to get my screensaver to run correctly on my 2 monitors. I have a Hanns-G HH281D (28") and a Hanns-G HH251 (25") with a resolution of 1920x1200 and 1920x1080 respectively. When my screensaver kicks in it treats both my monitors as one big screen instead of two different monitors so some of my larger images creep over to the other monitor. When this system was using XP it alternated the 2 monitors to show the picture on each of the monitors.

Ultimately i would love to have 2 different images showing at the same time but I would be happy with the images alternating between the 2 monitors again. I have already tried ultramon and a few other multi display utilities but they could not produce the results I wanted.

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GPU: ATI Radeon HD4870
Mobo: Asus P6T V2 Deluxe
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
CPU: Intel i7 920
RAM: 6GB Corsair

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Looks like you can do it with ultramon:

http://lifehacker.com/5048568/screen...tiple-monitors


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Looks like you can do it with ultramon:

http://lifehacker.com/5048568/screen...tiple-monitors

Try DisplayFusion for desktop wallpaper.
Well I ran ultramon and all that thing did was display the same image on both screens. I thought it would be nice to have 2 different images on each monitor. As far as desktop wallpapers go all i did was combine 2 images with the correct resolution in MS Paint and select the tile option for the wallpaper.

I don't mind paying for a good program that will do this but I just can't find anything with solid reviews.

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Looks like you can do it with ultramon:
http://lifehacker.com/5048568/screensavers-for-multiple-monitors
Try DisplayFusion for desktop wallpaper.
This program is excellent if only for its smart taskbar setting.
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