WIN2k New Features

I could be mistaken, but I believe that this option requires additional hardware to make it work. On a desktop, I believe it requires dual monitor cards (or one of the newer cards with dual monitor support).

I don't know any practical way to make it work on a notebook/laptop computer.

paul

You need proper hardware to support mutli-montior features.
Desktops can support upto 9, and I have seen some IBM thinkpad's that support the multi-monitor feature (Video out and the TFT use a different desktop), but they had hardware feature that supported it.

The New Feature is called MULTIPLE MONITORS. I'M NOT SURE BUT I BELIEVE THAT WITH WIN2000 ON A LAPTOP YOU CAN HAVE THIS OPTION WORKING IF YOU PLUG IN AN EXTERNAL MONITOR.

The New Feature is called MULTIPLE MONITORS. I'M NOT SURE BUT I BELIEVE THAT WITH WIN2000 ON A LAPTOP YOU CAN HAVE THIS OPTION WORKING IF YOU PLUG IN AN EXTERNAL MONITOR. HAS ANYONE TRIED THIS NEW FEATURE WITH THEIR LAPTOP?

With a laptop, the Monitor that you plug into the back cannot be used as a second monitor. The way we got around this is we bought a Margi "Display to Go" PCMCIA card which acts as a second display adapter and you can add the second monitor to extend the screen and run seperate apps on seperate screens

Check out this website:
http://www.margi.com/products/displaytogo.html

Multiple Monitors requires multiple video cards. Laptop, desktop, whatever. I have heard about custom harware solutions, but they seem like a mythical beast... as I've never really seen any.

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