Dual monitor full screen?

[drewcrew73]

Right now I have my 23" acer as my main monitor and a POS emachines 15" lcd as my second. What I'm trying to do is watch movies on my 23" and do others things on the 15" such as poker, write papers and whatnot. What I was trying to figure out is if you can have a program like a movie up in full screen on the one monitor and still work on the other monitor without it going out of full screen?

[Kalivos]

That shouldn't be a problem, I do this all the time.

[jivetrky]

yep, not a problem to have a movie fullscreen on one monitor and do stuff on the other one. :thup:

[Contra]

nope no problem, i have a 23" Acer and 2 22" on both side and I do the same...

[jmdixon85]

I have two 22" screens and also do this all the time. When you make your movie full screen, say in media center, it will lock your mouse to that screen. You simply have to press the windows key to bring your mouse back and use it on the other screen.

[jivetrky]

I would recommend not using Media Center if possible. I did that for a good while (with the second display being my living room TV). When you fullscreen, it's a major pain to ALT+TAB out of it, it definitely has issues (This is with Vista Ultimate, not Win7. Not sure if there is a difference in 7)

I would recommend using Windows Media Player or better yet, VLC.

[jmdixon85]

I have no choice but to use media center as I use it for my DVB-TV card. Much better than using the Win-TV software that came with it.

[drewcrew73]

Everytime I put it into fullscreen it disappears as soon as I click on my other monitor. Do I have it set up wrong or something?

[jmdixon85]

What dissapears exactly?

[jivetrky]

Everytime I put it into fullscreen it disappears as soon as I click on my other monitor. Do I have it set up wrong or something?

This was a problem I ran into with certain programs. Specifically with Media Center



Download and install VLC and try it with that. It doesn't "reset" the screen when it fullscreens like media center and sometimes WMP.