Panoramic desktop (scrolling)

[Ian Knight]

Hello,

I was woundering if you can set the desktop in win2000 to
be wider than the monitor resolution, thus creating a
virtual desktop. e.g desktop 2028x1024 monitor 1024x1024.

Then you could simply roll/scroll the mouse to the area of
the desktop you wished to view.

Similar to what you could do on some old laptops that only
had 600x400 displays, the system would default to 640x480.
You could then move the mouse to the desktop area you wish
to see.

Or, perhaps a graphics adapter that allows this rather
than having to use multiple monitor. As this is very often
most impractical.

Many thanks in advance Ian Knight

 

[gerryR]

IT depends on the graphics card (or more importantly the graphics card
software) I think. We had some old 8MB matrox cards that allowed this. The
settings were accessed through the display properties. I'm sure there's a
piece of software out there to do this.

 

[Ian Knight]

Gerry,

Many thanks for your post on this subject, and the Matrox
solution is what I'm am trying to replace/upgrade...

The Matrox solution was from about 5 years back and only
supported 95/98/98se and NT, now we what to upgrade to
Win2K and XP, and Matrox no longer support this feature.
Like everyone else they beleave that multiheads is the way
to go... Job creation for monitor salemen..

As far as a software solution is concerned, well I must
have reviewed 20 in the last couple of weeks. Most are
pretty good and do a resonable job at virtual desktops.
However, they all seem to suffer from the same problem.
That being that if a window that is off view (not part of
the current desktop/ or view)and traps (has an exception
violation) then you can't change focus to that window and
it's Alt,Cntrl,Del time..

With the Maxtrox solution you could simply scroll the view
and take what ever action...

Brgds Ian Knight