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ATI Catalyst setting to stretch Windows XP start bar across both displays

ATI Catalyst setting to stretch Windows XP start bar across both displays

I have a Lenovo T400 laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series video card, using the ATI Catalyst Control Center to span my Windows XP display over the laptop display and a Dell flatpanel LCD.

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Guest [Entry]

"There are a couple of utilities that allow you to span the taskbar over a multimonitor setup, but with all these programs start button and tray will remain on the default display.

Look up MonMan, UltraMon, DisplayFusion or Oscar's Multi-Monitor TaskBar and take your pick.

Edit: and then there is Actual Window Manager (shareware), which will span the taskbar over multiple monitors with a start button on each monitor."
Guest [Entry]

"By default, windows only puts the start bar on your monitor tagged as ""Default Monitor"" ""Primary"" or ""1""

Also, Windows does not have an option to put it on both screens. The two screens would have to act as one screen within windows to get it to do so.

To stretch your start tray across both monitors, ATI would have to have that in it's desktop options. I am not familiar with ATI so I can not tell you where to find them, but there should be a help file that could assist you with that."