Multi-monitor programs

[Crastopher]

What are the programs that allow you to have separate wallpapers on each monitor and extend the taskbar across all three monitors?

EDIT: My bad, should have probably put in fast threads.

[ManningQB18]

[QUOTE=Crastopher;30973113]What are the programs that allow you to have separate wallpapers on each monitor and extend the taskbar across all three monitors?

EDIT: My bad, should have probably put in fast threads.[/QUOTE]

Ultramon to extend the taskbar and have different versions
If you need a totally free program, you can use Display Fusion to have different wallpapers, but there isn't a way to extend the taskbar for free.

[Crastopher]

[QUOTE=ManningQB18;30973459]Ultramon to extend the taskbar and have different versions
If you need a totally free program, you can use Display Fusion to have different wallpapers, but there isn't a way to extend the taskbar for free.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I just grabbed Display Fusion. Would rather not pay $40 just for a longer taskbar.

[Chipset]

To be honest, two different backgrounds isn't that great.
multi-monitor spanning wallpapers is where it's at. Go to google image search, do an advanced search and enter like "wallpaper" as the search term or w/e, then select to search for exact image sizes and enter your resolution. For me, with two 1920x1080 monitors in landscape orientation I searched for 3840x1080.

Here's a website I found while searching this.
[url]http://krosset.com/pages/wallpapers/[/url]
Pick your res and get downloading.

Edit:

Even better, go here:

[url]http://wallbase.cc/search[/url]

do a search without any terms, then enter the resolution and press the refresh button to the right.
Pages and pages of stuff.

[chrishind10]

Taskbar dual monitor spanning is built in to Windows 8 apparently, so Ultramon will be getting ditched. (it cant even render matching height taskbars anyway) I always stitch my images together in GIMP and put it into tile mode.

[Darkimmortal]

Multi monitor taskbars along with pretty much every feature in Display Fusion/Ultramon are a huge gimmick.

The only useful feature is having different wallpapers

[Crastopher]

[QUOTE=chipset;30973879]To be honest, two different backgrounds isn't that great.
multi-monitor spanning wallpapers is where it's at. Go to google image search, do an advanced search and enter like "wallpaper" as the search term or w/e, then select to search for exact image sizes and enter your resolution. For me, with two 1920x1080 monitors in landscape orientation I searched for 3840x1080.

Here's a website I found while searching this.
[url]http://krosset.com/pages/wallpapers/[/url]
Pick your res and get downloading.

Edit:

Even better, go here:

[url]http://wallbase.cc/search[/url]

do a search without any terms, then enter the resolution and press the refresh button to the right.
Pages and pages of stuff.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I'm using a multi-monitor spanning wallpaper. But I have three 24" monitors set at 1920x1080. I have used wallbase for a while, but I didn't see any 5760x1080 wallpapers that appealed to me.

[Nipa]

[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;30978912]Multi monitor taskbars along with pretty much every feature in Display Fusion/Ultramon are a huge gimmick.

The only useful feature is having different wallpapers[/QUOTE]

Multi-monitor taskbars are [b]very[/b] useful for me. I don't use the Superbar; I think it makes usage of the taskbar unnecessarily difficult, so conserving space is important. Having all the windows for each monitor on a single taskbar is stupid and a waste of space; I'd much rather prefer having them spread out (which makes logical sense to me.)

The other features of DisplayFusion/Ultramon, such as buttons to switch between monitors, are also pretty useful; I can save time by pressing a single button instead of having to un-maximise, bring over to the other monitor, and maximise again. The implementation of decent multi-monitor window snapping in DisplayFusion is a nice touch, too.

Living without either program and multiple monitors would get irritating fast. I don't use Alt+Tab that often; it can be difficult to distinguish between programs, so I genuinely believe multi-monitor taskbars are a useful feature.