2 monitors with nvidia

**inspectercoley** · 16th August 2007

I now have 2 monitors at work

But I am looking to get it set up with the taskbar only on the lefthand one and cannot find the setting for this...

Its an n-vidia card but im not used to the shit new menus. Anyone know where this option is now?

**marcode** · 16th August 2007

er.. off the top of my head i think its achieved by setting the display mode to DualView

**DJAd** · 16th August 2007

If I attach another screen via the VGA and use dual screen's the taskbar is ONLY on the left hand screen by default.

**inspectercoley** · 16th August 2007

For some reason windows is only detecting it as one monitor and displaying it across both?
Maybe that is the problem, on my one at home it sees two separate displays.
They are both connected by DVI not VGA tho so maybe that is why
The nvidia control panel finds both tho...

Maybe ill get IT to install new drivers see if that solves it.
DualView is not an option for me anywhere at the moment? of at least I cannot see it.
Is that in nView section somewhere? That is currently disabled.
It mentions dual view when I choose the two monitors in the options but there is no option to select it.

**Goldberg** · 16th August 2007

I would go the new driver route. I take it you have re-booted after plugging the other monitor in?

You shouldn't need to use the Nvidia shite web based menu (I hate that!), you should be able to do it in the windows properties window and click the 'extend my desktop' box for the 2nd display.

What card do you have in?

**theodotcom** · 16th August 2007

you have the settings set so it stretches the display along both screens, you need to change this in the nvidia settings. what card are u using?

**inspectercoley** · 17th August 2007

Its a work PC so a pretty shit card... FX550

After restarting it now shows the second monitor and then I just choose the extend to second monitor and now it all works fine.

Many thanks

**WRATH OF BOD** · 20th August 2007

better still you can get ultramon.its a great bit of software.
i have used this with 2 22 inch lcds before,some good settings on it too
h++p://130.94.74.217/ultramon/download.asp

patches should be available in the usual places.