Different Backgrounds on Dual screens?

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Benitora

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• Oct 4, 2009

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I've seen pictures of this on other user's dual monitor set up, but I can't figure out how to do it. Does anyone know how to do this in windows 7?

 

baditude_df

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• Oct 4, 2009

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Do you mean the same picture split over the monitors as one big picture? Or two completely different pictures, one per monitor?

 

lemings

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• Oct 4, 2009

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Your best bet is going to be DisplayFusion.

http://www.binaryfortress.com/displayfusion/

 

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• Oct 4, 2009

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Agreed with lemings. Display Fusion or Ultramon, but I think Ultramon still has some issues with Windows 7 and Ultramon also isn't free.

 

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I meant two seperate pictures as backgrounds

 

Omsion

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Yep, go with DisplayFusion if all you're after is wallpapering.

Ultramon has some awesome features, though (though I think it's main attraction for mist is the extra taskbars on each monitor)

 

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I installed display fusion, thanks guys

 

DaveHCYJ

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• Oct 5, 2009

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Another easy method if don't need any other features besides different backgrounds, and you're like me and don't like extra software:

Use image editing software to combine the two background images into a single image that has the dimentions of your two montiors (ex: 1600x600 if you have 2 800x600 desktops) and then set that new single image as your background using the tiled setting.