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How To Create A Dual Monitor Wallpaper wallpaper that stretches dual monitor

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Dual monitors are awesome, but how cool would it be if you could get an image to span across both monitors, rather than the image being cloned on both monitors?This is how to do it:take and image that has the dimensions desired, save it on your hardrive.then right click on your desktop --> properties --> desktop tab --> choose "none" for wallpaper --> click Customize Desktop --> "web" tab --> "new" button --> Browse --> double click the picture you are looking for --> "OK" --> "OK" --> "OK" --> the image is now on the desktop, however it may be off center.simply hover your cursor over the top of the image, a tab should show up, click and drag the image to where you want it.That's it. enjoythanksmatt

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think i know about that, but it always gets off screen for me! so i dont use it! do you have a dual monitor? i have one monitor with dual PCs connected to it, and i think that rocks better! as for having 2 monitors, whats the importance?

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Come on.. If you never have had dual monitors you never will understand.. .. Put it like this.. Its like having 2 hard drives in one computer.. Simple enough to understand. Where as to one .. You only have one place to store and work from .. But with two .. You have double the space.-welwel

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i see the importance in both setups: a dual-monitor and a single monitor dual-computers...the dual monitor setup works well if you want to see both a music playing app on one, and a fullscreen game or something on the other... rather than switch desktops to change tracks you just fly over to the other monitor...i do like the single monitor setup as well, because then i don't have to devote peripheral hardware to my server, which I touch maybe a few times each month... I've seen a few contraptions that allow you to share the mouse and keyboard as well...

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I was trying to stretch my wallpaper on my dual monitors, but it didn't work out so well. I'm going to try out this method next time I hook my other monitor. For the person asking what's the importance of having two monitors.. I'd have to agree with Feedbacker. It's so much cooler to have more space, you can be doing so many things at once. When I'm doing a big photoshop project, I can have the whole preview on one monitor, and I can be doing all the small zoomed up touchups on the other one, or use one monitor just for all the pallets. Oh, and I love playing games on one monitor, and being able to read my emails on the other, or having my music player on with full visual effects on. I dono, it just makes everything more fun ^_^

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think i know about that, but it always gets off screen for me! so i dont use it! do you have a dual monitor?
i have one monitor with dual PCs connected to it, and i think that rocks better! as for having 2 monitors, whats the importance?


The best example is when you are writing some document and you need a lot of data that's in another document. On one screen you have the document that you are creating and on the other one you have the data. It's much more convenient than constantly hitting alt-tab.

@rbf1787: I'd rather create a big wallpaper (big in terms of being as wide as the 2 monitors) in The GIMP and then setting this as a tiled background. Works great, especialy if both monitors have a different resolution ^_^ .

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Thanks, Matt! Works like a charm. I have a favorite panoramic image I put together in photshop and now have as wallpaper spanning two monitors. It's like I'm there... 

-reply by pete s

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Different backroundsHow To Create A Dual Monitor Wallpaper

Dual monitors are great but how can you set them up to have a different wallpaper on each monitor in WinXP?

Under Linux it's a piece of cake.  You can have them change automatically as often as you like.

-question by courtrrb

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