Comments on: Setup Multiple Monitors In Vista

By: Sahas Katta

Sahas Katta — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:57:36 +0000

@Johnny
Go to the Display Settings window. There you should see two boxes with the numbers ‘1′ and ‘2′. Click and drag them to the position your monitors are in. So in your situation, I think you’ll have to drag the number two box to the left of the number one box. Just hit apply and hopefully that should work!

By: Johnny

Johnny — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:32:50 +0000

I want my desktop to extend to the RIGHT, meaning when I drag a window from my left monitor to the right one, it should work. But right now, I have to drag the other way. How do you fix that?

By: Benny

Benny — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:12:12 +0000

Hello, I’m having a problem while trying to clone my pc monitor and the tv monitor.
when I’m trying to clone- on the tv screen I can see the desktop but my pc monitor gives me an error “Mode is not supported”.
I’m running on Vista SP1 32-bit, graphics driver is : 175.19 and my monitor is “Proview”
What can I do to fix this problem with cloning?
Thanks in advance.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:30:36 +0000

cool stuff though how do you use the other screen? i can connect with see both monitors but can only use one at a time. I also have NVIDIA.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:41:16 +0000

Two screens are for minimalists…how about for a third screen? Is that possible on a laptop using Vista?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:52:44 +0000

Thanks for the information on adding a monitor to use with my laptop. I use two screens at work, and it’s good to be able to do so at home, too.

By: JC

JC — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:02:07 +0000

I just posted to an earlier post, but my dual monitors are now working great and I used the monitor stands at buytech.com [link removed by admin] to align and mount my monitors. The monitor sit flush.

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By: Sahas Katta

Sahas Katta — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:40:12 +0000

@Sarah
Go back to the display properties and uncheck the box for “extend this monitor”. Or if you happen to be using the Nvidia control panel, then just go to the multiple display settings and choose the option to clone the content on both displays. - Hope that helps!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 11 May 2008 05:29:29 +0000

Ok, so now that I’ve done that and have the extended display on two monitors, how do I change it back so that both monitors display the same thing?
Thanks!

By: Tam

Tam — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:11:28 +0000

I have Windows XP,but i want to download and install the upgrade adviser of
Windows Vista.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:09:03 +0000

thanks for this. i had no i dea u could do this with a laptop.
i always just closed the lid on my laptop when i connected it to my big display
now i can use it to put all my widgets and chat windows.

By: Sahas Katta

Sahas Katta — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:27:21 +0000

Something that I also failed to mention was that I haven’t yet had any issues when using multiple monitors after upgrading to Vista SP1. Before that, just as you said, it sometimes randomly started to change resolutions and mess up the settings and I would have to go setup everything again. So if you are still experiencing those problems, I suggest you attempt to upgrade to Service Pack 1.

By: James Creer

James Creer — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:35:09 +0000

Did this a while back.
Vista messed up the resolutions quite a few times like you mentioned but once got that issue sorted out it worked a charm.
Nice to see that your extending the knowledge out to everyone xD