Dual Screening on Windows 7

[FrEaKy]

Amazed this wasnt posted earlier, but okay.

So alot of you have already seen Windows 7 in its glory, and have had a chance to play with it. Now it uses an updated version of Display that you may have seen in Windows Vista. Allows you to work with dual monitors without the use of nView or ATI Catalyst. But your options are very limited. You can do the positioning of the monitors and even change if its verticle or horizontal, but you cannot set a different background for the second monitor, and theres a couple other features you are missing too.

For those of you who would like a second desktop on your second monitor. You will either;
a) have to wait for nView or Catalyst coding for Windows 7
b) Download a third party program

I am going with B personally, and have found Display Fusion to be a very good program. Which can be found here. Now there are another two other programs that I can recall, corse I dont remember where to get em, but these are just some temporary options (or perminent if you want) until option A happens.
Also, theres Ultramon, they released version 3.0.7 in beta format, which is Windows 7 and Vista compatable. Found here.

So, just some thought into it from me...... if this has been posted before, I tried the search function, couldnt find anything, so if it was, point me in that direction and I can close a duplicate thread.

 

[Impulse]

I've been using DF even before upgrading to Win7 (and I've even used it on XP rigs)... Started to use it after I tested both it and Ultramon extensively when I got my 24" LCD and added it to my 19" CRT. UM development seemed to be moving at a snail's pace and I actually managed to crash it and corrupt an install of it at one point, so I stuck w/DF. Tho I'm not faulting the UM, I'm just saying it seems a lil' flakier in general than DF and I liked the feature set in DF much better ('specially with regards to managing wallpaper across displays or setting a different one on each, etc).

Where UM had the upper hand was in it's very granular controls over forcing certain apps to open in certain windows (generally they re-open wherever you last closed 'em tho, w/no extra 3rd party tweaks), and in moving windows across 3 or more displays (it had better built-in keyboard shortcuts for that IIRC)... At the time that I tested 'em anyway, this was back in June/July and like I said, DF is being developed and improved very frequently and Jon (the sole dev, AFAIK) is on the boards a lot to help troubleshoot and look into improvements. Highly recommended indeed, it's 50% off right now thru Jan 5th.