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9 Desktop Manager
Features Overview
Note: The NVIDIA Desktop Manager is a software feature designed for use
with any NVIDIA dual-display graphics card, such as any card in the
GeForce2 MX or Quadro2 MXR family of products.
Desktop Manager allows you to run one or more applications on one or both
monitors or desktops
and
primarily works in conjunction with the TwinView
Span modes in Windows 2000/NT 4.0 and Windows 9x Extended Desktop
modes.
Key features of and improvements to Desktop Manager include the following:
• Re-centered dialog boxes and menus, which prevents them from splitting
across two monitors
• Application-management features, such as maximizing the image to a single
monitor and restoring application windows to their last-used position
• Multiple-desktops support, such as the ability to launch applications on
separate desktops, switch between desktops using hot keys, and an improved
task switcher (Alt-Tab) window
• Window-management hot keys to move windows from one monitor to the
other
• Specific application support, such as the ability to display Microsoft
PowerPoint slide shows on a single monitor without breaking the display
across two monitors under multi-monitor mode
• “Zoomed” views of the screen area under your mouse cursor and changing
the zoom level on the fly using hot keys or the mouse wheel
• Resized task bar so that it no longer spans across monitors
• Unicode-enabled, which allows entering desktop names in any non-English
language that is supported by the Windows operating system running
NVIDIA software and hardware
Windows 2000/NT 4.0 vs. Windows 9x
Desktop Manager features are an artifact of how Windows 2000 handles multi-
monitor.
• Windows 2000/NT 4.0: An NVIDIA dual-display card is not detected as two
separate devices. Therefore, Desktop Manager adds functionality so that the
two monitors can be used as if they were attached to two separate devices.
Desktop Manager is available under TwinView Standard, Clone,
Horizontal Span and Vertical Span modes.
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