Win+Home: Clear all but the active window
Win+Space: All windows become transparent so you can see through to the desktop
Win+Up arrow: Maximize the active window
Win+Down arrow: Minimize the active window or restore the window if it’s maximized
Win+Left/Right arrows: Dock the active window to each side of the monitor
Win+Shift+Left/Right arrows: If you’ve got dual monitors, this will move the active window to the adjacent monitor
Win+T: Shift focus to and scroll through items on the taskbar
Win+P: Adjust presentation settings for your display
Win+(+/-): Zoom in/out
Shift+Click a taskbar item: Open a new instance of that particular application

Toss in a gaming class video card and it would give Dell’s XPS a run for its money.

Looks like laptop manufacturers are starting to take the hint that more screen real estate is a good thing, and multiple monitors it the way to go.
On Lenovo’s W700ds the screens are 17″ WUXGA & 10.6″ WXGA TFT which is good for messaging or other frequently used apps, but 10″ is a bit small for my Outlook. The W700ds is so wide it has a dedicated numeric keypad and the room for extra cooling fans.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/lenovo-thinkpad-w700ds-dual-screen-laptop-details-and-pics-unear/

Download the NVIDIA^® GeForce^® Release 180 driver to enable NVIDIA^® SLI^® Multi-monitor

support, giving you the ability to use two monitors with your GeForce^® graphics cards in SLI mode. Now you can easily switch between multi-monitor desktop mode and full screen 3D gaming mode without any additional system settings. Multi-monitor aware games – such as World in Conflict, Supreme Commander Forged Alliance, and Flight Simulator X – surround you with amazing graphics to immerse you in the game. In addition, you can enjoy the flexibility of having 2, 4, or even up to 6 displays based on your GPU and motherboard configurations.

In a nutshell this driver update enables the remaining display connector on the primary card running SLI.  It also allows you to add other Non-SLI Nvidia cards (counting the on board mGPU if you got it) to run displays without using the old method of disabling and re-enabling cards to get it going.

Thanks to Dragon for the tip!

Anandtech.com has recently posted a great writeup discussing this and its other features.

The short answer is you can’t.  But for a dedicated enthusiast it is possible…

When you enable SLI it disables all but one video port (on the SLI bridged cards).  This is fact.  But there is a way around this limitation by having a 3rd card not running in SLI.

For more SLI FAQ’s check out this great writup at the EVGA forums.

quote:
ORIGINAL: Slagar
i thought there was some way to run dual moniters on sli?

Reply from Stealthe:
The only way people have got this to work is by using a third card such as running 8800GTX SLI with a 7300 for the second monitor.Some people say to use an ATI card but unfortunately wont work becuase there can only be one video card driver loaded so it has to be Nvidia based.

Heres how it goes:

Even though nvidia drivers won’t show any SLI options in the games profiles , you can use nhancer to change SLI settings.

How it goes:

• Disable SLI and install the third card for your second monitor

• Disable the third card in device manager

• Enable SLI (You should restart pc after this step)
• Enable the third card in device manager

If you experience crashing when accessing the NVIDIA control panel after enabling SLI then enabling the 3rd card, you will need to use nhancer instead to change your video card settings.

Welcome to M-Town L33T’s Rock Band Marathon for Child’s Play Charity. We plan on playing straight from August 1st to the 3rd.

Child’s play is a charity that provides children in hospitals with toys, games , and books.
Feel free to head on over to chat with them and make sure you drop a couple bucks in the bucket for the children!

You will be missed.

Stage6.com  2006 – Feb 28th, 2008