[peter]

I have an old app that takes up the whole screen, since I have dual mon
setup, I prefer to put this app on the 2nd monitor (which I turn off most of
the time when doing simple tasks). Is there a way to force this app to start
running on the 2nd monitor? I don't know how to move it once it started up
and takes up the whole screen -- there is no windows frame. It was written
for 640x480 display.

[peterk]

You cant force it start on the 2nd monitor but you can make sure that you've
switched to the 2nd monitor before you start that program.
peterk

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"peter" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>I have an old app that takes up the whole screen, since I have dual mon
>setup, I prefer to put this app on the 2nd monitor (which I turn off most
>of the time when doing simple tasks). Is there a way to force this app to
>start running on the 2nd monitor? I don't know how to move it once it
>started up and takes up the whole screen -- there is no windows frame. It
>was written for 640x480 display.
>

[Manny Borges]

Of course you can force it onto the second monitor.

If there is no way to get this ap into a window and drag it over then close
it to set its afinity, you can just do the cheapo force. Switch the other
adapter and monitor to be the primary and them move evreything else to the
secondary.

Thats just a quicky off the top of my head, I am sure there is amore elegant
way.

"peterk" wrote:

> You cant force it start on the 2nd monitor but you can make sure that you've
> switched to the 2nd monitor before you start that program.
> peterk
>
> --
> It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about
> the problem
> "peter" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:uZnOBS$fFHA.352@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >I have an old app that takes up the whole screen, since I have dual mon
> >setup, I prefer to put this app on the 2nd monitor (which I turn off most
> >of the time when doing simple tasks). Is there a way to force this app to
> >start running on the 2nd monitor? I don't know how to move it once it
> >started up and takes up the whole screen -- there is no windows frame. It
> >was written for 640x480 display.
> >
>
>
>

[Vincent Xu [MSFT]]

Hi Peter,

Based on my knowledge: the position where the application appears is
controlled by the programmer who wrote the code of the application. For
example: both of your 2 monitors are set to 1024*768 and the primary
monitor is the left one. The programmer should write his application
appears with abscissa at least 1024 to make it appears at the 2nd monitor.
For your situation, the application was written for full screen, I don't
think the programmer had add any features such as "change display monitor",
so I think you can take Manny's suggestions as a workaround. It is really
an effectual way

Thanks for using Microsoft Newsgroup.

Best regards,

Vincent Xu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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| I have an old app that takes up the whole screen, since I have dual mon
| setup, I prefer to put this app on the 2nd monitor (which I turn off most
of
| the time when doing simple tasks). Is there a way to force this app to
start
| running on the 2nd monitor? I don't know how to move it once it started
up
| and takes up the whole screen -- there is no windows frame. It was
written
| for 640x480 display.
|
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