split dialog boxes on extended monitor

Hi all,
I added a second monitor, enabled the horizontal extended desktop, and now
all my dialog boxes, and especially the logon UI are annoyingly split in the
middle of both screens. Is there a way to fix this?
thanks in advance!

SoCalCommie
Sun Feb 03 10:38:46 PST 2008

"Wil" <Wil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> I added a second monitor, enabled the horizontal extended desktop, and now
> all my dialog boxes, and especially the logon UI are annoyingly split in
> the
> middle of both screens. Is there a way to fix this?
> thanks in advance!


Depending on your video hardware/driver, check under advanced settings.
There should be an option to force the dialog boxes to one monitor. Mine is
under Desktop Management/Windows (nVidia 93.71 driver 'classic display').

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Wil
Mon Feb 04 10:36:05 PST 2008

This is good once inside your session but it doesn't take care of the
ctrl-alt-del dialog box...

"SoCalCommie" wrote:

> "Wil" <Wil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7EDDF846-CAB2-4DF0-BC62-914322F7784D@microsoft.com...
> > Hi all,
> > I added a second monitor, enabled the horizontal extended desktop, and now
> > all my dialog boxes, and especially the logon UI are annoyingly split in
> > the
> > middle of both screens. Is there a way to fix this?
> > thanks in advance!
>
>
> Depending on your video hardware/driver, check under advanced settings.
> There should be an option to force the dialog boxes to one monitor. Mine is
> under Desktop Management/Windows (nVidia 93.71 driver 'classic display').
>
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> SoCalCommie
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>
> WARNING: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency
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>
>

SoCalCommie
Mon Feb 04 13:09:42 PST 2008

"Wil" <Wil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> This is good once inside your session but it doesn't take care of the
> ctrl-alt-del dialog box...
>
> "SoCalCommie" wrote:
>
>> "Wil" <Wil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:7EDDF846-CAB2-4DF0-BC62-914322F7784D@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi all,
>> > I added a second monitor, enabled the horizontal extended desktop, and
>> > now
>> > all my dialog boxes, and especially the logon UI are annoyingly split
>> > in
>> > the
>> > middle of both screens. Is there a way to fix this?
>> > thanks in advance!
>>
>>
>> Depending on your video hardware/driver, check under advanced settings.
>> There should be an option to force the dialog boxes to one monitor. Mine
>> is
>> under Desktop Management/Windows (nVidia 93.71 driver 'classic display').
>>
>> --
>> SoCalCommie
>> http://so-la-i.com/
>>
>> WARNING: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security
>> Agency
>> may have read this message without warning, warrant, or notice. They may
>> do
>> this without any judicial or legislative oversight.
>>
>>
>>

Don't know if this would work, but you could use TweakUI to clone your
desktop settings to the logon screen (maybe).

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Shenan
Mon Feb 04 13:12:45 PST 2008

Wil wrote:
> I added a second monitor, enabled the horizontal extended desktop,
> and now all my dialog boxes, and especially the logon UI are
> annoyingly split in the middle of both screens. Is there a way to
> fix this?

SoCalCommie wrote:
> Depending on your video hardware/driver, check under advanced
> settings. There should be an option to force the dialog boxes to
> one monitor. Mine is under Desktop Management/Windows (nVidia
> 93.71 driver 'classic display').

Wil wrote:
> This is good once inside your session but it doesn't take care of
> the ctrl-alt-del dialog box...

Actually - the driver should handle that as well. Does on the manby pcs I
have it installed upon (both ATI and NVidia drivers seem to do this -
putting the logon prompt on the primary screen only.)

My suggestion is to download/install and look into the advanced options of
your video driver. Do not get/use the driver provided by Microsoft - go
directly to the hardware manufacturer's support web page for your video card
manufacturer.

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