Select "Personalization" from the "Appearance and Personalization" screen. Click "Display Settings" to view the settings for your monitors. Click "Detect" if Vista does not detect your second monitor.
Once detected, you will be able to choose how Windows handles your monitors. For example, mirroring shows the same desktop on both displays, while extended displays different content on each monitor. Use the drop-down menu to choose resolutions and orientation for your monitors.
Click "Apply" to confirm any changes. Nicole Martinez began writing in and has since been published on various websites. Fortunately, you can create a standard Windows shortcut that will incorporate both the special command line and your RDP file. You can now use this shortcut to launch your remote desktop connection and use all the available space on your multiple monitors.
Of course, the spanned desktop won't exactly behave like a multiple monitor setup when you open multiple windows. You'll have to use a little creative click-and-drag resizing to reposition the windows on the spanned desktop.
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Caveats While Vista's Remote Desktop support for multiple monitors is an awesome feature, it does come with two caveats:.
You just need to tell the computer how it's supposed to be using this second monitor. If you're using an updated version of Vista then it will have already detected the second monitor, so there's no need to do any hardware configuration.
The next thing you'll want to do is minimize all of your open windows, right click on the desktop background, and click on "Personalize". This will pull up the "Personalize appearance and sounds" window. From here you will click on "Display Settings". This will open the Display Settings program.
Once you have done this you will see something like the image below. If you have a second video card installed on your computer then you will see two graphical representations of computer monitors. If you have more than two video cards then you will see a graphic corresponding with each video card you have installed.
The monitor you are currently using is "1". We are wanting to turn on monitor "2". Click on the box with the 2 in it and you'll now be dealing exclusively with the second monitor.
Once you've done this you'll see something similar to the window shown in the second image. By now you've probably clicked the "Extend the desktop onto this monitor" checkbox and seen your second monitor display an image of your desktop background. If you haven't then now would be a good time to do so. Once you've done this you can use your second monitor as is, but it's helpful to align it, and set the proper resolution.
To align the second monitor in relation to the first one you just click and drag the "2" box until it's in approximately the correct position as related to where the monitors are actually sitting on your desk.
This is important because when you actually want to use the second monitor you will need to physically drag the windows you want on it "off the edge" of one screen and "onto" the other. It's easier to see, and do, then explain. Once you've done this click the "Apply" box and you'll be presented with one last dialog box asking if you want to keep the settings. If your screen goes blank and you see nothing then just wait for a minute and it'll come back.
At this point you may also want to adjust the resolution of the second monitor to get it to look right. The trickiest part of the entire dual monitor setup is learning how to use it.
What we've done is enlarge the desktop and stretch it across two monitors. With mine setup as shown in the pictures, when I move my mouse to the far left side of the laptop monitor it will vanish from my laptop screen and immediately appear on the right side of the screen on the second monitor.
Basically, just pretend that you have one monitor and you've cut in half and it magically still works.
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