I’ve downloaded UltraMon and PowerStrip and still haven’t figured out how to do these things I want to do with my two-monitor set up:
Put a start menu on each monitor.
I already have a task bar on each monitor, which shows only the apps running on that monitor; which is awesome. But I want a start menu on each one, and I want to decide which monitor to open a program into by using the start menu from that monitor.
Use the full desktop of my higher-res monitor for the wallpaper.
I found a great wallpaper that looks fantastic in hi-res. The problem is that it assumes the resolution of the lo-res monitor (1024x768) and uses that resolution on both monitors; the other one, running at 1280x1024, has 1024x768 of wallpaper surrounded by border fill. I want to maximize the wallpaper across each monitor, or in fact both monitors if possible. For that matter, I wouldn’t mind knowing how to…
Set a different wallpaper on each monitor.
Or hell, even
Set up a rotation of wallpapers that switches every day or every time I boot or something.
Since the question’s been answered, I’ll just say that I’ve never seen anything in GQ with a prize for the correct answer. Enjoy the XP IBM Thinkpad, space!
I don’t think this is possible.
To Windows, the multiple monitors are just different parts of the same desktop. And I don’t beleive Windows was designed to have more than one Start Menu on the desktop. You can reposition the Start Menu in lots of ways, but I’ve never seen anything about having more than one Start Menu.
As far as your wallpaper is concerned, you just have one big 2560x1024 monitor so if you just set a wall paper that big, it will span across it. your second monitor will only be able to display the top left part of your wallpaper so make sure your low res picture fits in there.
(Thanks!)