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Detonator XP User’s Guide

Note: Span modes ensure full Desktop Manager functionality. Under the

Standard mode setting, only “multiple desktop” features are

supported.

• Windows 9x: An NVIDIA GPU-based dual-display card is detected as two

separate devices resulting in much of the Windows NT 4.0/2000 Desktop

Manager functionality being inherent to the Windows 9x operating system.

For this reason, only a subset of the Windows NT 4.0/2000 features is

required and available under the Windows 9x Desktop Manager.

• Desktop Manager is available under Windows 9x Extended Desktop

(TwinView disabled) mode; it is not available under Windows 9x

TwinView Clone or Standard (TwinView disabled) mode.

• Windows 9x does not support multiple desktops.

Enabling Desktop Manager

Follow these steps to enable Desktop Manager:

1 Before you can access NVIDIA Desktop Manager, you must have the

following settings:

• Under Windows 9x, from you desktop, click Properties and the Settings

tab to open the Settings control panel; be sure the Extend my desktop

onto this monitor option is checked.

• Under Windows 2000/NT 4.0, open the TwinView control panel and set to

Standard, Clone, Horizontal Span or Vertical Span mode. Again, note

that TwinView Horizontal and Vertical Span modes ensure full Desktop

Manager functionality, while the Standard mode (TwinView disabled)

setting only supports “multiple desktop” features in Desktop Manager.

2 To access Desktop Manager, you need to use the NVIDIA Desktop Utilities

control panel to add the NVIDIA QuickTweak icon to the Windows task bar

and add Desktop Manager to the QuickTweak utility, as shown in Figure 9.1

For details on the procedure, see “Desktop Utilities” on page 125.

3 You can use one of two options to access the Desktop Manager Properties

panels:

• Click the Desktop Manager Configuration button (shown in Figure 9.1)

• Click the NVIDIA QuickTweak icon on the Windows task bar, then

select Desktop Manager Properties from the context menu (Figure 9.2).

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