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What is the best multiple monitors app for Windows 7?

Call me crazy, but I like the Microsoft Themes in Windows 7. However, the background image only seems to duplicate whatever one that it is currently on for multiple monitors. Is there any way to use the themes but have the other monitors have a random background from the current theme too rather than duplicate on both?

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I am aware of multiple monitor tools such as Display Fusion and Ultramon. Though both are nice to have, I'd like to see if there is a way to change the theme behavior using free techniques rather than commercial applications. Perhaps there is a registry change I could make? Or a script I could setup? I'm not sure, but I'd like to know and I'm willing to dig into whatever is thrown out there.

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You can't get random backgrounds natively. You'll need to use a separate background changing program, like the free John's Background Switcher. The reason why is because Windows does not allow you to apply more than one background at a time. 3rd party programs like Display Fusion, Ultramon or John's Background Switcher get around this limitation by merging two picture files together and creating one large picture file.

If you like the pictures in the themes, you can extract them.

The theme files are merely archive files. You can open them up in Winzip or Explorer.

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