Setting up apps to start in certain monitors with nView

[J3anyus]

I just finally got my dual monitors all set up, and they seem to be great so far. I'm running one off of a GeForce2 GTS and the other off of a PCI TNT2 M64. Nothing too spectacular, but I don't need anything very powerful. Both cards are running Detonator 40.72 drivers under Win2K.

Anyway, I'd like to set up the secondary monitor to run Winamp, Eudora, and a few other apps, and have the primary monitor run everything else. I tried to get nView to set certain apps to open up in certain monitors, but the only option is to have them open on certain desktops. I tried creating more desktops, but it seems as though all of the desktops end up as virtual desktops on the primary monitor. I would imagine that this is really easy to set up and I'm just blatantly missing something here, but I'm new to the whole dual monitor thing, so yeah

If anyone could help me out, I would appreciate it so much.

Thanks.

J3

 

[chemicalplay]

i am trying to get dual screen setup, but the secondary monitor says " to enable dual screen, choose the option from the desktop/settings tab". I know this and try to do it but it wont dispaly anyhting on the other monitor. can u help?

 

[J3anyus]

Originally posted by: chemicalplay
i am trying to get dual screen setup, but the secondary monitor says " to enable dual screen, choose the option from the desktop/settings tab". I know this and try to do it but it wont dispaly anyhting on the other monitor. can u help?

Only thing I can think of is make sure that you've got the "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor" option in the display control panel checked.

Also, bump.

 

[bsobel]

Not an answer to your specific question (Im not using nView), but you might want to check out Ultramon. I run most of my systems multimonitor and have to install this first thing anytime I reinstall the OS. Good shell integration and could do nice things like turn off secondaries when you launch a game (etc)

Good luck,
Bill