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Does anyone know if there is a way to make a single monitor act like a dual monitor with 2 totally seperated areas that are detected at the window's level.

Eg. 2560x1600 monitor to show up as 2 panels with 1280x1600 resolution each or a 1920x1200 showing up as 2 960x1200 monitors. I am usually looking at code/documents mostly so larger vertical vs horizontal resoutions are preferred.

Is there any video card drivers that support this or is there some layer to put over windows to allow for this functionality. The solution should make windows see 2 monitors when looking at the display settings. There should be no difference from a real 2 monitor solution.

Is this even possible?

Edit: Using windows Vista.

Edit 2: I am looking for something that virtualizes the multiple monitors so windows itself thinks there is 2 monitors. Not looking for something that will give me split bars etc.

quack quixote
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Kelsey
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Try WinSplit Revolution.

Edit: Since you want Windows to think there are two physical monitors, maybe Matrox PowerDesk or Virtual Display Manager would fit your needs.

Nick Devereaux
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Dan Walker
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How about we just solve your original problem?

Are you using windows 7? You can drag the window title bar to the left or right edge to use up half the screen.

For XP/Vista try this http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/188/xp_vista_tile_cascade_minimize_windows/

Pyrolistical
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Download the virtual display driver from https://www.amyuni.com/downloads/usbmmidd.zip

Unpack the zip file to an empty folder, e.g. c:\temp\usbmmidd

Open a command prompt window as Administrator (you cannot add a device to your system unless you "Run As Administrator")

Run the following commands:

cd c:\temp\usbmmid (or whatever destination folder you chose)

deviceinstaller64 install usbmmidd.inf usbmmidd

Make sure you see the message that the drivers are signed by Amyuni Technologies Inc. This is a confirmation that the drivers went through Microsoft driver signing procedure and are virus free

deviceinstaller64 enableidd 1

If you are on a 32-bit system, replace "deviceinstaller64" by "deviceinstaller"

Works beautifully, from https://www.amyuni.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3030

j4hangir
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Now windows have native support & this github project does it neat.

Using Deskreen this second screen can easily to viewed in any another nearby laptop

Stalin Gino
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