Nowadays you have the option to run multiple monitors off one computer and this is nothing new but the majority of people use this dual display desktop because of the low prices of the LCD monitors on the market and the desire to have bigger and wider screen size and visible area. Users are acknowledging the idea of this display and the benefits, the whole idea having reasonable costs and a quite easy installation. Here are some pointers on how you should set up your two monitors one computer display, some requirements and some features.

Windows XP, 2000, ME and 98 supports the display of your desktop on multiple monitors and also some types of Linux. Remember that we will teach you to configure a two monitors one computer system but if you can afford it and want it you can have multiple monitors because the display properties will support it.

For this to happen, you would just need the proper hardware to be installed and to enable a dual display. Go to the Settings tab from the Display Properties and what controls you used to have for just one monitor now you will have for two. These two monitors can be attached, resized or reoriented just to match your configuration that you decide upon after arranging the monitors on the desk.

Select 'Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor' and now your cursor will be able to leave the first monitor and navigate freely on the display of the other one. You can now move some programs, taskbars or icons on the new monitor and can take advantage of the new visible area that you have managed to get for yourself. With such a display watching movies just might be your new hobby.  This system may be very useful in the case of reviewing documents and not having to tab back and forth just to see them or maybe on a fun level you may have you email on one screen and message your friends and on the other the DVD video or the audio player.

The experienced gamer can tell the benefits of such a system, many games today having incorporated this feature just to offer the player an unforgettable experience. Quake, Unreal Tournament and Microsoft Flight Simulator are just some programs that will support multiple monitors to allow the gamers to feel the intensity of the game much deeper. In offices and businesses this dual display option may be the best feature yet. Some need just the space to see what they are working on this being in addition to the viewing of multiple files and documents at once. The AutoCAD users can now drag all their taskbars on the second monitor and work without being uninterrupted on the first monitor.

Other example of what activities you may perform better on a two monitor one computer display is the daily trade, for people that my need to monopolize a number of stocks at once, because in this case  when you have multiple windows and you do not pay attention to one of them it might cost you dearly. In every operating system you have included the software portion of this setup. The hardware part is more difficult but even a computer beginner will know how to do it. You will need of course a pair of monitors and the means that you will connect these monitors to the computer which you can do in many ways. For the ones that will build the system from scratch the easiest way is to connect via a dual head graphics adaptor the two monitors to the computer, for instance the nVidia GeForce 6600 PCIe card.

The digital and analog connectors on the card allow the two monitors to be connected to the new system just through the use of one PCI Express x 16 slot. Available for PCI and AGP there are dual head cards, being just the matter of selecting the right card for the motherboard available slots. Selecting the correct displaying connections is the second important set after you have selected the correct interface of the motherboard. The card that we suggested provides 15-pin VGA connection for the analog display as well as one DVI connection for the digital one. If you use a DVI to VGA adaptor owner can then run all the combinations of monitors that we have mentioned. There are other cards in the market that may offer you the two DVI or VGA connections, depending on what you search for.

The VGA connection is the typical 15 pin, blue in color, that has been on computer for many years and surely you will recognize it if you just can't picture it now and the DVI connection is much wider then the VGA one and you will find it in white. For the ones that already have a present system that would benefit from the double display monitor setup then if you replace the graphics adaptor that already exists with the dual head card would be your first option in the making of this device but not the last because you ca add other graphics adaptor and you can add to the system so that you would keep your card. Financially speaking this would be much nicer.

The most important thing to keep in mind is the selection of the second graphics adaptor that will use a slot available from the motherboard and that will offer the display connection that will match your monitor. There are more upgraded systems that feature more then one PCIe x 16 slot that can make this happen but you will have the option also to add a PCI card to any other system that will be currently running through PCIe, or PCI graphics. This card will be acceptable to run a high end primary bargain only based on the second card or a combination from the two cards.

If you are looking for the benefits of this option then you should consider the financial one, having two smaller monitors would just do the job as well as a bigger one. Two 17 inches LCD monitors will cost you less then one big 23 inches one and if you just look on the internet site you will find many other features and advantages to this options that people have gained to like and use so much.