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User’s Guide
Chapter 4
Using nView Multi-Display Settings
Due to operating system differences between Windows 9
x
and Windows NT 4.0/
Windows 2000, the latter does not currently offer true multi-display support for Span
modes using one NVIDIA multi-display graphics card
5
. As a result, size of the actual
desktop is limited to twice the smaller size of the two displays.
Note:
The desktop can be extended either horizontally (
) or vertically
Figure 4.12
nView Horizontal Span Mode — Windows XP
To access the nView Span modes, follow these steps:
1
Click the
Horizontal
or
Vertical Span
setting on the nView Display Settings page
and click
Apply
.
2
Click
OK
and
Yes
when the messages appear.
If you just switched from Standard (Dualview) to one of the Span modes, your
secondary display will be activated. If needed, click
Detect Displays
to enable the
displays.
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.
If two graphics cards are installed, the Windows 2000 operating system does detect two devices.
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