Vista - Bring Horizontal Span back please!

What happened to Horizontal Span display mode?

As a graphics designer Horizontal Span is a must have for me. Dual Mode just
doesn't cut it with apps I use. And it's very annoying for games that I
enjoy(ed) playing across two screens.
What can we do to get it re-instated? A petition? Email?

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"SteveA" <SteveA@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Horizontal Span? Do you mean being able to extend your desktop over more
than one monitor? Of course it hasn't gone. You have to enable it in
Display Properties.

You might be interested in using UltraMon as well. www.ultramon.com

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Horizontal Span IS NOT the same as Extended Desktop. Extended Desktop is
basically Dual View. In Vista there are only two options now: Dual View (w/
extended desktop) and Clone.

With Horizontal Span I could get a resolution of say 2560x1024 if I have two
monitors supporting 1280x1024 each. The start menu would span BOTH screens.
When application windows are maximized they stretch across the two displays
rather than the confines of one monitor as is the case with extended mode.

In games on XP I could get dual screen resolutions in the video options when
Horizontal Mode was enabled. In Vista the same game only provides the options
for one display. It is not a video card problem either. According to nVidia
Microsoft dropped Horizontal Span due to the internal architecture of Vista.
Tehy say Microsoft needs to bring it back. And I agree.
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"Synapse Syndrome" wrote:

I agree with this. Horizontal span is essential for any but the newest games
if you want to play with two screens. Case in point: GTR2, rFactor, Race 07.
I'm sure the coders can rig up something to at least emulate the effect so
that old games can still run dualscreen (as ultramon solves this problem for
most programs).

I really would like to see Microsoft at least acknowledge these posts.

"SteveA" wrote:

Really I`m not anti Microsoft geek but after buying 2 24 inches monitor, new
HDD and Vista Premium and NVidia card and after desperate search I found out
that horizontal span gone!!! You are joking. All cost me a lot of money and I
did it because of MSFS X and Dirext X X. All product legal and paid. What
disappointment, Microsoft!

I have the ability to connect two monitors and make the display span between
them. This feature has NOT been removed from Windows. Open the "Help and
Support" tool and search for "dual monitor", where you will find tons of
information on setting it up and troubleshooting when it doesn't work.

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Which Nvidia card?
I'm running a 17" and a 19" monitors on my Nvidia 7800 GTX card.
Using the Forceware 169.25

Run the Nvidia control panel, and set up your multiple displays.
It's not a problem.

Also check out UltraMon or MultiMonitor Taskbar to get the taskbar to span
both monitors.
I'm also using DisplayFusion, which lets you use a different background on
each monitor.

http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/
http://www.mediachance.com/free/multimon.htm
http://www.binaryfortress.com/

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