[rabscuttle385]

If you know: You mean, in XP Pro if I just throw a leftover video card into my PC (which has integrated eg; on-motherboard video) and hose up another monitor (and check the “2 monitor” desktop option as you said) BOTH video outputs will work; and the add-on card won’t “override” the integrated video?

The add-on card will probably automatically disable the onboard video. At least, that's what my PC did.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“The add-on card will probably automatically disable the onboard video. At least, that’s what my PC did.”

Up to this thread, that would have been my expectation as well. But neither of us thought of (or knew about) clicking the “2 monitor” mode thingy. Of course now I HAVE to try that. I shall report back!

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Hey, it works! (with an integrated eg; video-on-motherboard computer)

This is throwing a POS plain vanilla video card from an older Dell into a newer hp. Had to reboot, go into setup, and enable integrated video, as the add-in card DID disable the integrated video. Furthermore, the “graphics properties” and “graphics options” selections DID NOT show up on rt-clicking on a piece of unused desktop. On control panel, display, settings, display properties I was able to drag multiple windows onto one monitor, work them, and leave others on the other monitor. Have to figure out which one you wish to be your primary (an arbitrary decision) and of course, only one monitor is going to have your “start” tile and only one monitor is going to display the “status” of all the apps/WDO tiles you have open. To open a new app you have to go to the primary monitor, I assume. You can of course close anything on the slave monitor with the red “X” or Alt-f4 and open add’l browser wdos/tabs with alt-f-n-w. The extra monitor is simply extra “wall space”, and I could see that being useful.