Windows 7 multiple monitor

Windows 7 Dual Monitor Taskbar: How to Extend Windows 7 Taskbar to a Second MonitorIntroductionMulti-monitor Taskbar: Windows 7 FeaturesEssential Controls: Start Button, Notification Area (System Tray), Show Desktop ButtonPinLive Previews and Aero PeekJump ListsTaskbar ToolbarsVisual EnhancementsMulti-monitor Taskbar: Additional FeaturesIndividual/Mirror ModeGroup Window OperationsConclusion1. Introduction In Windows 7, Microsoft has significantly redesigned one of the most essential parts of Windows user interface - the taskbar. Users got a lot of new features and facilities, like Pin, Peek, Jump Lists, and more.However, even the new Windows 7 still has no special tools for a multiple displays environment. One of the most obvious and wanted features is the ability to extend the new taskbar across all available displays: multi-monitor users would like to have the new task management features on secondary monitors as well. General Windows 7 taskbar on dual monitorsAlthough there are several third party solutions that allow duplicating the taskbar on secondary monitors, they still have no or just partial support of the new taskbar features presented in Windows 7. Actual Multiple Monitors is the first and only multi-monitor software that provides the exact replica of Windows 7 Taskbar on secondary displays. 2. Multi-monitor Taskbar: Windows 7 FeaturesAfter installation, Actual Multiple Monitors immediately adds a copy of the main Windows Taskbar to each secondary monitor. Each copy supports the following features:2.1. Essential Controls: Start Button, Notification Area (System Tray), Show Desktop ButtonHaving such essential controls as the Start button, the notification area (a.k.a. system tray) with the clock and the Show Desktop button in a second monitor's taskbar eliminates the necessity to drag the mouse to the primary monitor each time you need to perform one of the following common tasks:launch a program fr om the Start Menuaccess some background program's icon in the notification areaopen the Date and Time Properties dialogpeer past all open windows straight to the Windows 7 desktopWith Actual Multiple Monitors, you can perform any of these tasks while working with any display. Taskbar with its essential controls on a second monitor2.2. PinPin feature is a smart replacement of the Quick Launch toolbar: it allows having certain application

Same monitor. This mode is recommended if you would like to treat your monitors as separate desktops devoted to different activities.Multi-monitor Taskbar in individual modeIn mirror mode, all taskbars display all open windows no matter what monitor a particular window is on (i.e. all taskbars show the same set of buttons). This can be useful if you have some of your displays installed and would like to control all running applications from any display.Multi-monitor Taskbar in mirror mode3.2. Group Window OperationsSecondary taskbar's context menu provides the commands to manipulate several windows at once ("subject monitor" mentioned below is the monitor wh ere you invoked particular command):Secondary taskbar's context menuMinimize all/Restore all commands - if you are using the individual mode then you can quickly minimize all open windows on the subject monitor and restore them back in a single click (in mirror mode windows will be minimized/restored on all monitors at once). You can use the Aero Shake feature as wellGather all windows here command - puts windows from all monitors onto the subject monitorGet here all windows from command/submenu - retrieves all windows from a specified monitor and puts them onto the subject monitorSend all windows from here to command/submenu - transfers all windows from the subject monitor to a specified one4. ConclusionWith the release of Windows 7, users got a lot of new task management features but with the release of Actual Multiple Monitors everyone can extend the new functions to all available displays. At the moment, Actual Multiple Monitors is the only software that extends Windows 7 taskbar to secondary monitors and replicates it as exact as possible. How to Set Up Dual Monitor Wallpapers Slideshow Step by step guide to installing a slideshow mode on dual monitor. Split the Windows Desktop: How to Divide a Single Large Desktop into Multiple Smaller Ones Learn how to split the desktop (either single- or multi-monitor) into multiple non-intersecting areas for better windows allocation. How to Creare a Desktop Profile for Multiple Monitor Desktop Learn how to create a desktop profile for multiple monitor desktop for quick switching between settings.

Into their preview thumbnails.[-] Windows Vista/7: Sometimes Actual Multiple Monitors caused Desktop Window Manager's crash.[-] If a window was maximized to desktop and then maximized in usual way, its buttons remained in secondary taskbars.[-] Winamp 5, when in skinned mode, did not appear in secondary taskbars.[-] Soft Mouse Lock could not be activated without the full reload of Actual Multiple Monitors.[-] Hand tool stopped working after restarting Actual Multiple Monitors.[-] Multi-monitor Wallpaper extension crashed on invalid image files.[-] Upon closing, Configuration window sent the unwanted Back command to an underlying window (Windows Explorer, any web browser, etc.). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------Actual Multiple Monitors 3.2.1 (11.07.2011)----------------------------------------------------------------------------[+] You can toggle the Multi-monitor Taskbar's "Always-on-top" state via its context menu.[*] The Soft Mouse Lock works more accurate and stable.[-] Multi-monitor wallpapers looked wrong if there were portrait-oriented monitors.[-] Desktop profile hotkeys stopped working after applying the configuration changes.[-] Slideshow parameters were not modified after activating another desktop profile.[-] The "Next slide" command did not appear in Desktop's context menu when Actual Multiple Monitors was installed with the support of administrative tools.[-] Multi-monitor Screen Saver did not run the Blank screen saver if it was assigned to a second/third/etc. monitor.[-] Sometimes the Multi-monitor Taskbar's context menu initially appeared behind the taskbar.[-] Console windows hung for 5 seconds after launching.[-] Scroll Inactive Windows tool did not work with Corel WordPerfect.[-] Hand tool did not work with Winamp.----------------------------------------------------------------------------Actual Multiple Monitors 3.2 (25.05.2011)----------------------------------------------------------------------------[!] Desktop profiles support advanced display management features available in Windows 7 (such as displays cloning, image rotation).[+] In Windows 7, preview thumbnails in secondary taskbars display custom control buttons (like Play/Pause/Forward/Back for Windows Media Player) and application's notification icons.[+] In Windows 7, secondary taskbars display the hidden notification icons in a special fly-out window.[+] Jump Lists in secondary taskbars display a context menu for their items (menu's content may differ from a menu displayed for Jump List items in the system taskbar).[+] Now it's possible to drag items out of Jump Lists and drop them into other applications.[+] The soft lock of the mouse within monitor (a.k.a. "tight monitor boundaries") is added. This mode holds the mouse pointer on the boundary between monitors for some specified time and prohibits moving the mouse to another monitor unless you drag it there forcibly (i.e. longer than the specified amount of time). You can enable this mode and adjust the hold time in the new "Multiple Monitors -> Mouse" panel.[+] The new Lock Mouse in Monitor hotkey is added (Alt-P by default).[+] The ability is added to add custom mouse actions for clicks on particular window parts (see the Mouse panel in the Options window).[+] The Hand tool is added. It allows scrolling windows by holding down the specified mouse

Taskbar buttons disappeared after moving a window to the primary monitor and back.[-] Taskbar buttons for windows in the new version of Google Talk showed in wrong taskbars.[-] Aero Peek invoked immediately after moving the mouse into a preview thumbnail, without any delay.[-] Sometimes tooltip showing current window position displayed incorrect values.[-] Crashes in dwm.exe happened occasionally.[-] In some cases, Control Center might crash upon reloading the configuration.[-] When launching Actual Multiple Monitors after Stardock DeskScapes, Windows Explorer crashed or became unstable.[-] With Actual Multiple Monitors running, capturing a video in TechSmith's Jing made it crash upon closing.[-] Windows 7: Sometimes Actual Multiple Monitors crashed when creating the secondary taskbars.[-] Control Center might crash when starting the wallpaper slideshow if the number of slideshow files changed since the last launch.[-] Multi-monitor Background parameters did not update after switching the Background Mode only.[-] Windows 7: Desktop profiles with cloning could not be activated in the Control Center (via hotkey, at startup, via tray's menu, etc.).[-] Windows 7: Photos screen saver, being run in a multi-monitor mode, got frozen on a first image, if the "On resume, display Welcome screen" option was active.[-] Screen saver continued to show the Buy Now reminders in the Free mode.[-] Upon launching Actual Multiple Monitors, title buttons in maximized windows shifted down if the Multi-monitor Taskbar was active.[-] Title buttons did not appear in the Windows Media Center window.[-] Additional commands did not appear in the Windows Media Center window menu after switching its window back from full-screen.[-] Hand tool interfered with the gameplay in some games (such as Cogs).[-] Wrap the Desktop feature did not work on a monitor where Internet Explorer window was maximized.[-] Configuration windows stayed out of sight when they were located on a secondary monitor and the monitor got disabled. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------Actual Multiple Monitors 3.4.2 (22.11.2011)----------------------------------------------------------------------------[*] The quality of multi-monitor wallpaper pictures is improved in Windows 7.[*] In Aero visual theme, Multi-monitor Taskbar's color is now exactly the same as the system taskbar's.[*] Delay before activating a preview when moving the mouse within a multi-preview for a grouped task is added (for now, it's hard-coded to 200 ms).[-] The Scroll Inactive Windows feature stopped working in previous update.[-] Activating the maximized windows from secondary taskbars forced them back to a normal state.[-] Sometimes the dwm.exe process crashed.[-] Window icon and caption did not update in preview thumbnails. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------Actual Multiple Monitors 3.4.1 (11.11.2011)----------------------------------------------------------------------------[+] The ability is added to invoke a Jump List by dragging taskbar button out of the taskbar.[+] Auto-scrolling of tabs in the Settings dialog is added so the active tab should remain always visible and other tabs fill the entire visible space.[*] Compatibility of the Scroll Inactive Windows feature is