Using Two monitors with one computer...for different apps.

Kitrax

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Ok, so I just aquired a fairly new 19" monitor for free. There are a few things I want to do with it. I have it hooked up to my laptop's secondary monitor output, and I was able to get my Nvidia go 5200 to clone it, so that I see an exact copy of everything that I'm doing. Now what I want to do is:

Configure the 19" monitor to disply only certain applications...such as the program that I use to watch TV and DVDs, play games, and edit pictures with Photoshop - while I use my laptop's screen to surf the web, display my Mp3 player status, and just about everything else.
I also want to be able to have different resolution sizes, refresh rates, and other screen adjustments indepent to each screen.

So, is there a program out there that will let me, say...set a program to display only on one monitor, while letting my use the other screen display a totally different program and easly switch my mouse cursor over to the other screen at will?

And lastly, before I got the monitor, it was used to disply a single program that the company used every day, 24 hours a day. So the image of that never changing screen has left a ghost image of that screen, wich you can clearly see when the monitor is off.
Any idea of how to get rid of the ghost image?

Thanks.