Graham 2009-09-02 06:08
So I've been using the UltraMon 2.7x for a while and everything has worked fine. Then one day from the Windows XP login screen I clicked on the wrong user account. It began loading that users account when I chose to logoff before everything loaded. I received a few 'not responding, end now' errors on a variety of things that I did not recognize or take note of. I then logged into my normal account and now my dual monitors were displaying the same thing instead of my extended desktop as my UltraMon profile specifies. So I rebooted the machine. Didn't work. Rebooted again. Same thing. Downloaded the new beta version of UltraMon. Same thing. But now I can't even open UltraMon at all. When I try, nothing happens.
I'm using Windows XP (latest SP)
Dell E5400 laptop is the primary screen
LG Flatron L227WTG is secondary screen
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Graham
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Christian Studer 2009-09-02 09:47
Sounds like clone mode got enabled for some reason, if you go to UltraMon menu > Display Settings and the secondary monitor is shown as disabled, enabling it should fix the problem.
If that doesn't work you'll need to change the multi-monitor mode via the software for your video card, there should be an option for extended desktop (also called Dualview or independent displays).
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Graham 2009-09-02 23:52
Well, actually it may be a little more than that. Here's the thing. Under my normal windowsxp user account (which is an administrative account) UltraMon simply won't launch. Not during startup or even when I go to Start - All Programs and launch from there. However, when I go to the other administrative account on my computer it does launch fine. So it seems to be something unique to my user account and perhaps a corrupt file or something?? Just guessing.
Graham
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Graham 2009-09-03 05:47
Well I'm not exactly sure what combination of actions I took resolved the problem, but I think I figured out that there is/was some problem with the services that startup on my machine. Anyway, it seems to be working now after restarting about a half dozen times. Thanks.
Graham
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