Different Backgrounds for Different Monitors

Yojo · Dec 18, 2005

Anyone know of any software that will let you have different backgrounds for different monitors hooked up to the same computer? Two monitors are hooked up to one graphics card, and then another monitor is by itself on another.

Any help is greatly appreciated...

My setup:
BFG 7800GTX (two heads) - 1600x1200 CRT and 1920x1200 2405FPW (Dell)
Crappy old PCI ATI Card - 1280x1204 CRT

redduc900 · Dec 18, 2005

AFAIK this would be a function of your video drivers, not the OS or software... although you could probably use the Vitual Desktop Powertoy (assuming you're running XP) to achieve this...

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

pdehn · Dec 18, 2005

Lots of people swear by Ultramon for dealing with multiple monitors, me included...

ultramon website

threeme2189 · Dec 20, 2005

yep ultramon is were its at foo!

broken_Naols · Dec 25, 2005

Ultramon alllll the way!

mewisemagic2 · Dec 25, 2005

i think you go into advanced menu in display properties and somewhere on the nview tab i think. their is a tab to enable different wallpapers , maybe its called dualview. i forget,anyho i have dual monitors setup like that on my wifes pc

JigPu · Dec 28, 2005

Another solution that I use is to paste the two images next to each other in Paint and set the resultant image as a tiled background. It's fairly inconvienient (though I don't usually change wallpapers much), but needs no extra software.

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