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Multimonitor Issues?

Well, I finally got sick and tired of my laptop display, and set it up with a second monitor. Now, everything was working just fine until I got to the screensaver. I've been using the matrix code emulator for years, and it is supposed to have multimonitor support. So, when I see it in screensaver, I noticed immediately that there was a problem. Specifcally, the screensaver would only display on my secondary monitor and NOT on the main, which just went to a sorta glowy black. Now, I thought this was rather odd, and did a little research. Screensavers that don't support multiple monitors are supposed to display on the main monitor, while ones that do support multiple monitors are supposed to display on both. I've never seen anything about one only showing on the secondary monitor. I did some searches and found a program that was supposed to fix that, called multimon. Now, I can get the screensaver to display on the main monitor, but then it won't show up on the secondary one. What am I doing wrong!?

My graphics card is an nVidia Gforce 8400 GS, and the secondary monitor is an old acer plug 'n play lcd. My laptop is a Dell I bought back in June or so last year.
 
Cocoa":3izsxtyl said:
How are you managing display? Using the NVidia utility?

I tried it with both the nVidia utility as well as Multimon, with no real differences other than the fact that I could more easily tune it with multimon.

Edit: Sorry, just checked, and it is actually Ultramon.
 
Cocoa":1lvvp5tf said:
While we're on that- What Operating System version are you running? Windows XP? Windows Vista? Windows 7?

I can't believe I forgot that! Here:

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Also, ignore the fact that I deleted the regisration key and name. Just want to keep things simple. Also, did you know that there is actually such a thing as 64 bit XP? I don't have it, but some do. It was really rather rare.
 

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