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.

I have a project studio where I run a 3-monitor setup where I work off of two of the displays for recording and the 3rd one is extended into a vocal booth so vocalists can read lyrics or watch one of the mixer windows.

The problem is, that when in a program like Cubase that doesn’t differentiate between all the windows with taskbars, I have no way of knowing where the mixer is on the 3rd LCD screen should I wish to pull it to my screen to make modifications and then throw it back to the vocalist inside the booth. Instead I have to have two mice connected, one being inside the booth, walk over the it and use that mouse to the move the window to my screen and vice versa.

Is there any kind of utility that would allow previews of the contents of each screen to be shown on one of the main monitors where I could drag windows from the preview back and forth between monitors? Otherwise I’m blind as soon as I put something on the vocal booth screen.

Hello Philip,

I am working on the assumption that you need a minimum of 2 screens to work with your studio application.

The most common solution in this application is to split the signal for the third monitor into 2 monitors. This way you can have a 3rd display at your desk that shows a mirror image of what is shown in the studio.

If you only have a short distance you can get a simple splitter without an amplifier.
Here is an example of a VGA splitter: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812120153

Purchasing a 4th display can be expensive, but the time saved from not having to interrupt the recording process would hopefully balance it out.

- Mike Breton MultiMonitor.Net

Do you have a suggestion for Philip? If so, sound out below!

Seems the magic sauce was to put the relevant files in these locations:

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\XXUSERNAMEXX\team fortress 2\
SoftTH.cfg
SoftTH_hook.dll

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\XXUSERNAMEXX\team fortress 2\bin\
d3d8.dll
d3d9.dll

Click Here to watch in HD!

Download The Music! Warning the website may be Not Safe For Work.

Tips: Use spacebar to move through the new map screens.
Download my Config file: softth
I load the game and switch to 16:9 and 4000×1200 resolution for it to work. It does not seem to like any other aspect ratio for me.

Digg This!

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/

With NVIDIA’s gracious new fall driver I decided I cannot go any further without SLI.

Before the driver update, enabling SLI would disable all of the video interfaces on your SLI cards spare one.  After the update the remaining interfaces on the master SLI card have been re-enabled.  This is great if you want to dual-screen, but I must have triple if not quad displays!

Join me in my path to SLI and get some handy tips along the way…

Starting out the test PC has two NVIDIA 8800GTS’s installed and the majority of time SLI is disabled for multi-monitor support.  I first installed the GeForce release 180 driver.  The majority of your SLI questions can be answered here.

Next I installed the third video card that will not be in SLI mode.  Because it is not SLI’ed you can use any modern NVIDIA card.  For this example we used a GeForce 7950GT.  Don’t forget to plug in the 3rd PCI Express power cable!  I also made sure the left and right display’s were plugged into the 3rd card(7950GT).

On first boot with the 3rd card installed all the screens went black after booting windows.  The solution was to power cycle and during POST press F8 for safe mode options.  If running Vista, choose the 640×480 low resolution mode and boot.  You can now see windows and accept the driver install.  Reboot once the card is finished detecting.

Next you want to right click on the desktop and choose Personalize and Display Settings.  Here you can right click on the disabled monitors and click attached to bring your side monitors back into view.

Hopefully your last step is to go into the NVIDIA controll panel and enable SLI and everything will be awesome!  If you are as unfortunate as myself the SLI option will be hidden, probibly due to how new this feature is and you will have to use the old method.  O.K.  Now you can party!

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.

NVISION’s slogan was “The World of Visual Computing”  but could be just as easily titled “All the cool stuff of NVIDIA partners”, because ATI and Matrox was nowhere to be seen.  But don’t get me wrong,it is a top notch event, and I plan on paying my way to attend next year so I can experience everything.

HIPerWall is the first thing you see entering the convention center.

The event truly covered all corners of visual computing, from hardware vendors, cutting edge technologies, famous speakers, to the largest LAN party I have set eyes on.  Any geek will find lots to love here.

GeForce LAN. “The Guinness World Record for the longest continuous LAN party with over 100 participants was set today at NVISION 08. 203 hardcore gamers kept going for 36 straight hours!” – NVISION Highlights

k|ngp|n attempting to break world records right on the showroom floor at the EVGA booth.

Wallace Santos, President & CEO of MAINGEAR, checking out the friendly competition over at the SIM Factory booth.

I met with some of the best case modders in the world including fellow [H]ardForum member craigbru who completed Project: Rogue (on right) which was featured on the HardOCP.com homepage.

Later this week when I return from my trip you can expect full writups from the booths that were MultiMonitor related.