How do I switch between monitors while in a game?

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ThEvilSquid

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I have 2 monitors, and am using 2 Nvidia GTX 260's in SLI. Both monitors are connected to the same card. I have no problem using the Extended Display feature to scroll the mouse across both screens on my desktop.

What I WANT to do is be able to have a game in full screen on my primary monitor, and then switch over to the other monitor (which has browser windows or chat or whatever open) without alt-tabbing or closing out the game. This would need to be done on-command only, to avoid scrolling out of the game windows. Can I setup a hotkey that, when pressed, will allow me to do this? I have looked extensively through the menus in Windows 7 as well as Nvidia Control Panel and can find no way to do this.
 
It doesn't work that way from my experience. With full screen games if you touch the mouse on other screen, it will minimize your game.

The only way around it is to run your game in "windowed mode" which a great many games do have.
 
Running games in windowed mode however will make the game use only one gpu.
 
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