Comments on: Windows 7 Dual Monitor

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:00:57 +0000

OK, well, “In theory, as soon as you plug in a second monitor…”

It is Micorsoft after all!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:55:11 +0000

“As soon as you plug a second monitor into your computer, Windows 7 detects it and immediately starts using it.” – If only this was true. I have a brand new Acer eMachines netbook. With XP the second monitor (a projector) was fine. I upgraded to W7… Now I can’t see the projector at all when I plug it in. When I reboot, I can see the projector okay, but I can’t use my own screen !! How dumb is that.

By: Roland Shaak

Roland Shaak — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:57:41 +0000

Hi people,
I have a dual monitor setup works fine in win 7 x64 but for the life of me i can not figure out how to preserve my second monitor’s open application settings. I have three programs i would like to have open when Win 7 starts each time i boot. How stupid am i..

any ideas?

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:31:42 +0000

I can’t seem to get my monitor on VGA and my 42″ panasonic tv on HDMI to show at he same time. Each is recognised and works when connected on their own separately but when both connected only the monitor has a display. Both are shown in the screen resolution boxes as 1 and 2.

By: MARK

MARK — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:19:50 +0000

WHEN I HOOK UP MY MONITOR VIA VGA AND AMY HDTV VIA HDMI MY LAPTOP ONLY ALLOWS ONE OF THE TWO SCREENS TO WORK SIMULANEOUSLY. ANYONE KNOW HOW I CAN EXTEND TO THREE MONITRS? I M IN WIN7 AND HP G61 LAPTOP.

By: Rumen

Rumen — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:16:56 +0000

This “auto assumption” and making same resolution on both monitors is definitely a big fail.
My problem is that when doing presentation from laptop with recommended resolution of 1920×1200 i can’t use it because display is with 1024×768 resolution. So on laptop screen i use 1/3 of the display.

Is there a way to set manualy different resolution for different monitors?

By: Irwin

Irwin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:16:41 +0000

Hey Doug, is Win7 capable of extending the logon screen background (not the desktop wallpaper) onto the second monitor if the PC/notebook is lock?

By: Samson

Samson — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:27:50 +0000

I can only copy screens on my samsung with windows 7. The option has some how been deselected at all regions. What can I do?
The option for extended desktop is non existant. I mean what the score! is there a driver update or will i need to buy a usb vga version to keep the second monitor for extensive being extented mean, any ideas? is it windows 7 or samsung to blame.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:25:19 +0000

Amit Sehgal, I am running into this too, however, I’ve done some testing. If I connect to my dual monitor machine, with a single monitor source, the remote desktop sesson moves everything into one monitor (for the remote client), and I’m logged off my desktop. However, if I just end the session, and don’t ‘Log Off’ from the remote desktop session, when I log back into my desktop, it puts all the stuff back. If I log off from the remote desktop session, and then log back into my desktop, everything is scrunched onto one monitor.

Trying to find a way to switch the default power button in the start menu from Logoff to Disconnect, for a remote desktop user, cause this is going to be for a client user.

Drew

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:11:46 +0000

In most OS(s), playing a game and with duel monitors will hinder you from using the second for other uses. Does win7 fix this? I haven’t gotten a second monitor, but I was just curious.