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MULTIPLE MONITORS
Windows 98 introduced the ability to have two or more
monitors connected to your computer. In fact you can have
as many as eight, although I don't know why anyone would
want to have that many. Once you install the new
hardware, double click on the Display icon in Control
Panel, select the Settings tab. Let us say you have two
monitors connected, then there will be two monitor icons
displayed, each numbered 1 or 2. To configure the second
display so that it becomes a continuation of the Desktop
of the first, do the following: 1) click on the picture
of the monitor numbered 2 to highlight it; 2) drag the
two pictures of monitors so that their placement agrees
with how the real monitors are physically arranged; 3)
set up the second monitor so that both monitors will have
the same number of colors and the same screen area; 4)
click OK. Now you can move windows from one monitor to
another and have a much wider Desktop to work with.
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