Add A Taskbar to your Second Monitor
It’s becoming more and more common to have multiple monitors on your desk and it can get annoying that all the OSes important functions are on one monitor while the other just collects overflow. Wouldn’t it be great to have a taskbar on both monitors?
MediaChance has released a free application for dual and triple monitor users. To boil this program down it simply puts a taskbar on your 2nd or 3rd screen. MultiMonitor will show the applications that are open on only that monitor. A couple of extra bonus features are a clipboard extender that shows up in the lower right of your 2nd display. There is also a button near your minimize button that can automatically move your windows to your primary or secondary display.
Windows only and totally free
6 Comments, Comment or Trackback
Jerry
I’m pretty sure NVidia’s driver has this function. I just don’t use it.
Apr 2nd, 2008
Stephen
I’m glad somebody finally came out with a free solution for this. Ultimon has been out for a while but it costs money. This is something that I’ve always wanted to have, but I just didn’t think it was worth paying for.
@Jerry: I think you can do it if you put your monitors in span mode with Nvidia’s drivers. But it doesn’t work that way if you use Dual-View. There might be an updated driver or something to do it though…if that’s the case, ignore me :)
Apr 2nd, 2008
chad
someone needs to make this for Mac soooo bad, much more than it is needed for windows users… at least with Windows your context menus are located on the window that you’re working in… on a mac your context menu’s stay in your main bar of the app you’re working in… example being if I want to print a web page in firefox and it’s in my second or third monitor… I have to navigate to the first monitor and click file - print.
PLEASE GOD SOMEONE MAKE THIS FOR MAC :(
ahem… and before anyone tells me to “just use windows”… go fuck yourself :)
Apr 2nd, 2008
chad
ahem…. regarding my previous comment… found this.. which seems to ease the pain a bit.
http://homepage.mac.com/khsu/DejaMenu/DejaMenu.html
basically whatever app you’re working in, hit a hot key and that apps menubar menus pop up in context menu fashion.
apple…. seriously guys…. fix this.
k thx bye
Apr 2nd, 2008
Chowder
@ Chad…just use windows…
Apr 3rd, 2008
chad
@CHOWDER
I think you already know my response.
Apr 3rd, 2008
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