Dual Monitor question really quick

Timmybighands

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Hey guys. Rig in my signature.

I just updated to the Cat3.9 drivers for my card, and when I rebooted, my taskbar moved from one monitor to the other.

I cant seem to figure out how to get it back to the one I had it to before. If you can help, please post.

Timmy

 

{PMS}fishy

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There is a section in the drivers where you choose a Primary and Secondary monitor.

The Primary is the monitor that displays the taskbar. If you change that it should take care of it for you.

 

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Timmybighands

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Thanks fishy... I swapped the primary and it remained the same. Any other suggestions?

BTW, who's the chick in your avatar? H.O.T.T.I.E!

 

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Right click task bar
Properties
Uncheck "lock the taskbar"

 

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Timmybighands

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Hey Hey Hey All I had to do after that was drag it to the other monitor. Thanks

 

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If you run into other problems like that I just switch the monitor w/o the taskbar's positon to a different side (i.e. instead of to the let, to the right) then plug the monitors in different ports.

 

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Timmybighands said:

Thanks fishy... I swapped the primary and it remained the same. Any other suggestions?

BTW, who's the chick in your avatar? H.O.T.T.I.E!

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Shannon Elizabeth

 

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That's interesting, I didn't know you could drag the taskbar to a different monitor...
/me tries

Heh, it works... Cool.

 

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Timmybighands

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Here's another question for you all...

Can I get the taskbar to span BOTH monitors? That'd be nice.

 

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i like your avitar fishy

 

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Yes you can span it but not with an ATi card at the moment due to their poor multi monitor feature support.

nVidia and Matrox can.

 

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Timmybighands said:

Here's another question for you all...

Can I get the taskbar to span BOTH monitors? That'd be nice.

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Don't think so. I think it would be annoying to. When I run dual monitors, its to keep all the junk over on the second one, so I can get osme work done.

 

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Yes having a big bar at the bottom is annoying. Waste of space too. But here's an example on my system. Turned off the other wall papers for file size reasons.