Good morning from downunder Australia.
I have been reading through this topic and it seems that I may need some or a lot of help..
Firstly, I'm a novice at this stuff, so my questions and answers are in layman's terms.
Secondly, this is a work related question problem that I believe should have a simple answer, again in layman's terms..
Okay, here we go.. and my apologies for being long-winded..
I'm setting up a mobile trade shop in a large truck selling tools. for example something in the like with "Snap-on Tools" if anybody is familiar. I have set up the computer system in the truck running XP with dual monitors and a ATI Radeon Catalyst Control Center dual video card etc..
All runs fine and does the simple things that it's suppose to do - extend, clone, expand.
My initial purpose for setting up the 2 monitors is so I could use the second monitor as an advertising and promotional tool towards the customers that walk into the truck, whilst I carry out transactions and sales and whatever else I need to do away from their view.
So for example I want to run a Powerpoint presentation on the 2nd monitor, though I want to first peruse the presentation confirming that is the one I want to run.
Now here's my problem,
I know and understand that I can drag the presentation across to that monitor, though I don't have that monitor in my view as it is facing the other way and so I tend to either lose my mouse pointer or placing the presentation nice and centered to that screen is a task, or if you have multiple pages and files open on your main screen and you start to move them around as you do to see simultaneously you tend to push them onto the other screen. and this may not be evident or you don't know that you've done this without getting up and around to the other monitor to see where things end up.
Is there anyway of taking INDEPENDENT CONTROL over each screen and controling it from the main screen.
For example a picture in picture type situation like on your TV set when watching one main channel you can have a small box displaying whats in the other and you can drag and drop onto that as you would with any other file to file moving you do.
and/or
have control of what you can send to the second screen by "right click and send to"
I have spent a few hours in the control and preference setup but other that the common three setups of "extend clone and expand"
I don't know what else to do but it sure would be great if it was simple.
Thanks everybody for taking time out to read this, and hope you can help with a simple solution.
Cheers
The H-man and imadjok...:music:
I have been reading through this topic and it seems that I may need some or a lot of help..
Firstly, I'm a novice at this stuff, so my questions and answers are in layman's terms.
Secondly, this is a work related question problem that I believe should have a simple answer, again in layman's terms..
Okay, here we go.. and my apologies for being long-winded..
I'm setting up a mobile trade shop in a large truck selling tools. for example something in the like with "Snap-on Tools" if anybody is familiar. I have set up the computer system in the truck running XP with dual monitors and a ATI Radeon Catalyst Control Center dual video card etc..
All runs fine and does the simple things that it's suppose to do - extend, clone, expand.
My initial purpose for setting up the 2 monitors is so I could use the second monitor as an advertising and promotional tool towards the customers that walk into the truck, whilst I carry out transactions and sales and whatever else I need to do away from their view.
So for example I want to run a Powerpoint presentation on the 2nd monitor, though I want to first peruse the presentation confirming that is the one I want to run.
Now here's my problem,
I know and understand that I can drag the presentation across to that monitor, though I don't have that monitor in my view as it is facing the other way and so I tend to either lose my mouse pointer or placing the presentation nice and centered to that screen is a task, or if you have multiple pages and files open on your main screen and you start to move them around as you do to see simultaneously you tend to push them onto the other screen. and this may not be evident or you don't know that you've done this without getting up and around to the other monitor to see where things end up.
Is there anyway of taking INDEPENDENT CONTROL over each screen and controling it from the main screen.
For example a picture in picture type situation like on your TV set when watching one main channel you can have a small box displaying whats in the other and you can drag and drop onto that as you would with any other file to file moving you do.
and/or
have control of what you can send to the second screen by "right click and send to"
I have spent a few hours in the control and preference setup but other that the common three setups of "extend clone and expand"
I don't know what else to do but it sure would be great if it was simple.
Thanks everybody for taking time out to read this, and hope you can help with a simple solution.
Cheers
The H-man and imadjok...
:music:
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