Using XP Professional can I run 2 programs at once?

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greyhound007

Using XP Professional edition can I run 2 programs at the same time
using 2 monitors? Yes/No
How?

Thanks,
Greyhound007
 
Of course. Your computer can run many programs at one time. You need a
graphics card (or cards) that can handle two monitors, though.

MD
 
MadDog said:
Of course. Your computer can run many programs at one time. You need a
graphics card (or cards) that can handle two monitors, though.

MD
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Yes...
and once setup...
you can click and drag the application over to the other monitor
 
Laptops are good for this. You have one screen builtin, and you have a
monitor port for an external monitor. My roommate has his Acer laptop setup
this way. It was nice because he could drag a program from once screen to
another, or have it split between the two. Moving the mouse to the other
screen was easy: just move the mouse off the side of the screen... it would
appear on the other screen. Right or left depending on which settings.
 
thank you firth. I was also wondering if XP Professional was needed vs.
XP Home edition to run multiple programs.
 
thank you MadDog. I was also wondering if "XP Professional was
specifically needed" vs. XP Home edition to run 2 programs at same time
on 2 monitors.
 
Ok, heres the deal, have my computer hooked up to my TV, and i want to
be able to run games on one screen and IE explorer on the other. I'm
halfway there, I have my game up running on my TV and IE on the Moniter
but when i click IE the game minimizes and vice verse. So my question
is.. is it possible to play both without them minimizing into the
taskbar?. Or a program that will allow me to do this.

I'm running windows XP, have a gig of ram,nvida 6200 vid card and a
duel core p4 3.0
 
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