Vista - Nothing but desktop background on second screen, dualview v clone ???

I have a Packard Bell iExtreme running Vista home premium, my monitor is a philips something or other listed as a Proview/EMC/PTS analogue display. My TV is listed as a LG Electronics 32LC46.

I have just bought an HDMI cable to connect my PC's Geforce 9500GS to my HDMI TV set in the other room.

In the nVidia control panel, I can either set up the display settings to accomodate two different screens working independently with seperate settings (dualview), or have them set up the same (clone).

If I select clone, I get a copy of whatever happens to be on my desktop, which is what I want, so I can watch films and stuff from my PC on my TV. However, the refresh rate is the same as my monitor which is too high for my PC and causes lines and flickering. If I reduce the refresh rate to 30hz, which is what the TV seems to be able to handle, it's too slow for my monitor and I will get no image at my desk, but then I don't particularly want to sacrifice my 75hz on my monitor anyway.

If I select 'dualview' however, by tweaking the individual settings for my TV, I can get a nice, clear image which, with adjusting the resolution, fits okay on the screen too. However, all I get on my TV is the desktop background, no shortcuts or anything else.

How can I have the same thing as the desktop on my TV and still have control over the settings? I've tried messing with the winows display settings and setting the second screen as not an extention, but it doesn't help. When I do this, it just resets the nVidia controls to single screen mode and there is no signal at all coming through to my TV.

Is this something wrong with the nVidia control system, or is there a way to configure things in the dualview mode to send what I want to the seconsd screen. I've never used a second screen before, so I wouldn't know.

Just launch the apps, drag and drop the windows of the apps you want on your TV screen.
Next time you launch these apps they will be displayed automatically on your TV screen unless you drag an drop them back to your monitor.