Splitting a stretched desktop?

[Jason.]

Got a bit of a curly one for some of the gurus on here...

I've got a video card (Matrox Parhelia 128) that does 3 monitors at
once, unfortunately it has the annoying habit of only wanting to run in
"stretched desktop" mode, where Windows only sees one 3072x768 "monitor"
(really 3x 1024x768) and annoying effects like the taskbar stretching
across three screens. Matrox have told me that it can't/won't be fixed
in any future drivers.

My question is, does anyone know of a way I can "trick" Windows into
thinking that this one incredibly wide monitor that the video card is
reporting is actually 3 monitors, and treating them as such, and/or if
anyone has ever done such a thing, and/or where I should be looking?

Thanks

Jason.

P.S. Sorry, the system is Windows XP, but I couldn't find any
appropriate newsgroups

 

[DL]

Personnally I use a nVidea card that has modes for stretched or dual view. I
origonally had a Radeon 'dual monitor' card - I prefer the nVidea setup
You could see if this helps http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/
David