Comments on: Setup Dual Monitors In Windows 7

By: Luig

Luig — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:29:14 +0000

I am running windows 7 and have both of my monitors connected and extended. I can move windows from one monitor to the other by using the shortcut (windows key + shift + left/right arrow), but i cannot move my mouse to the other screen. It stays within the borders of my main monitor instead of transferring over to the other one. Any idea how to fix this?

By: HKH

HKH — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 03:32:50 +0000

I have the same exact problem RaynMan posted on Jan 2, 6:25
Any fix / recommendations…

By: Ajeya

Ajeya — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:53:50 +0000

I do not get the multiple screen/monitor option when I click on the ’screen resolutions’, so I cannot pick the ‘Extend these Displays’ option at all.
I have an older computer which ran 2 monitors well under XP.
HELP!!

By: bigonexeon

bigonexeon — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:55:21 +0000

your a champ that worked thanks alot

By: Sahas Katta

Sahas Katta — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:46:10 +0000

Maybe I didn’t explain it properly. As the instructions in the article said, drag Monitor 1 and Monitor 2 to the actual physical positioning. See this image: http://skattertech.com/media/2009/09/windows-7-dual-monitors-settings-200×174.jpg

You can click and drag each monitor icon. Move it over to the way the displays are arranged on your desk.

By: bigonexeon

bigonexeon — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:33:34 +0000

drag it around?

By: Sahas Katta

Sahas Katta — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:32:07 +0000

You haven’t arranged the displays in the settings dialogue properly. You’ll simply have to switch the positions of 1 and 2 by dragging them around then hitting save!

By: bigonexeon

bigonexeon — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:25:27 +0000

i have a question i have a duel 24 inch screens with win xp you could cross screen through the centre which i prefer but windows 7 you have to take it off the sides to get too the other screen how do i change windows 7 to let me do this change screens through the centre then the sides

By: martin

martin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:45:44 +0000

queria pregunratles porque tengo un problema tengo dos pantallas una wide y otra flat, cuando tenia winxp andaba joya le puse win 7 y cuando arranco la compu me prede uno solo, para que funcione ambos monitores tengo que desenchufar en el arranque y despues conectarlo. que podria hacer. gracias

By: Nikki

Nikki — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:11:39 +0000

Prob fixed. Actually, the setting should be “Extend these displays” with resolution 1280×960. I used “Duplicate displays” instead which kept having a black screen where the video was showing. Hope this helps others struggling with video output whilst working on another monitor.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:31:53 +0000

Hi,

I am new to Win7.
Have a AGP Nvidia Geforce FX5500.
Used to be able to have dual view when I was on XP – watch video on 42″ TV whilst still working on 19″ LCD monitor.
Is this setting still available in Win 7?

By: Dallas Web Design

Dallas Web Design — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:51:15 +0000

i’m trying to setup a vga supported monitor with a gateway laptop that originally had windows xp. should i blame it not working on windows 7 or on the video driver?

By: RaynMan

RaynMan — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:25:02 +0000

I am trying to use my Toshiba laptop as a second monitor. I have selected “Extend these displays” and can see the both monitor images and I can even change the resolution on both monitors. However, no matter what I do, clicking on “Identify” only identifies monitor #1 and I cannot get dual monitoring working. I have tried using setting the laptop as monitor #1 and my desktop as #2 and visa-versa. I get the same results every time. Windows 7 detects the second monitor, I extend the display, but it can’t identify anything other than monitor #1. I even tried connecting directly to the second port on my Radeon 4850 instead of my monitor and that didn’t work either. I also tried the function keys several times (fn + F5 and F9 on my computer) and have tried setting up dual monitoring from my video card settings on both of my computers as well as using the Windows settings like in this article. I am hoping someone else had this issue and could help me out or has a suggestion on what else to try.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:10:25 +0000

Ok everything seem crystal clear here, love it! Here is my problem, i have upgraded to win 7 and am operating duel monitors as we speak from my laptop. Here is the kicker, whatever i see on the laptop the hpw2007 is showing the same exact things? No obviosuly im say 50% there to run various pgrms on each screen but im stuck.

What I have done, I have gone into the control panel, but ony its detecting 1 monitor, i have tried updating all my devises with updates and hall are current,,,what the heck am i missing?

By: Captgg63

Captgg63 — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:04:11 +0000

Things can get wacky when you have a blackout/power surge. It may be a hardware issue. Take your cards to worstbuy and ask if they will test them.
Or get a friends and swap them out, that may determine whether a hardware problem or software problem

By: Sahas Katta

Sahas Katta — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:26:01 +0000

Not much improvement on custom wallpapers. It’s pretty much how you had to do things when Vista was here. I wrote a quick article about it here.
http://skattertech.com/2008/05/dual-screen-wallpaper-in-vista/

By: Karlos

Karlos — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:46:28 +0000

Of course. But I was talking about 2 different backgrounds – wallpapers. I do it on XP at work. But at home I have Windows 7 and can not find if it is possible too without other software like DisplayFusion…

By: SuperNordic

SuperNordic — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:50:13 +0000

Yeah if you run dual monitors you can (if your computer can handle it) show a movie on one screen and do other things on the other one like play a game or something.

By: Karlos

Karlos — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:10:06 +0000

Is it possible to use 2 different pictures for each monitor?

By: Corey

Corey — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:54:07 +0000

Hellow everyone, I’ve been useing windows7 since it came out and I have to say im loving it so far. I really did not find any problems with it untill i lost power at my house. When i turned the computer back on my display settings went back to there original settings. So I set it back to dual screens extended, put all my icons back where they I wanted them then restarted. Again back to one monitor, so I did all the steps checked all the setting checked all the drivers and nothing fixed it. I have 2 ATI Radeon HD 4870X2 Crossfired. This is a high end gaming machine 12 gigs of memory quad core processor. So i was thinking ati might not have drivers out yet that work right. Then i checked last night and they had new drivers so I updated the drivers restarted the computer down to one monitor again. So again i looked everywhere online for anyone with this problem no luck. I wanted to know if there was settings somewhere in windows7 im missing I have looked everywhere.