I have been following the various threads regarding use of dual monitors and thought I'd give it a try.Hooked up a second monitor to my nVidia GeForce 5700LE and placed the monitor adjacent to the primary one to the left. The monitor (a Dell 17"CRT) shows up in Device Mgr but I don't seem to be able to get any windows to move to that second monitor.Since so many get this feature to work well I must be doing something amiss.For instance, have loaded the Dreamfleet A-36 at KSEA. Opened the Radio stack in an undocked window, then tried dragging it with the mouse to the left edge of the screen. It goes to the left edge OK (and disappears as long as I keep dragging) but will not move to the second monitor.Tried to do the same thing in an L-1049 with the FE panel, and Fuel Panel. No transfer in any of these situations.A search of the forum yields a ton of threads on this subject but in the first 31 I viewed there was no mention of particular settings nor any specific instructions for implementing the multi-monitor mode.Did glean a lot of information from those threads... compressing sceneery files for instance, but still can't get a view on my second monitor.Are there particular settings I must make to ensure the second monitor will accept undocked windows? The monitor is on but simply continues to have a black screen. Is there some command or setup option I may not have invoked that is necessary?Appreciate any assistance.donmac

Sounds like Windows thinks your monitors are placed physically different to where it thinks they should be. Go to your display properties settings tab and look at the little diagram of monitor placement. Make sure the little black boxes are representative of your physical monitor placement. Also make sure that the monitors are in the correct order, which you can verify by clicking on the identify button to see the screen numbers displayed. Move the display icons to match your physical monitor locations as best you can.The best way to tell if everything is going to work OK is to move your mouse across all the screens after adjusting as above. Your mouse should cross smoothly to the next monitor at roughly the same level if you have everything set up right. After this, the FS undock feature should work as advertised. You should be able to move any other non-maximised desktop window around in this fashion.Gary

Did you click the checkbox for the "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monior" option? If not, then try that. R-

>Sounds like Windows thinks your monitors are placed>physically different to where it thinks they should be. >>Go to your display properties settings tab and look at the>little diagram of monitor placement. Make sure the little>black boxes are representative of your physical monitor>placement. Also make sure that the monitors are in the>correct order, which you can verify by clicking on the>identify button to see the screen numbers displayed. Move the>display icons to match your physical monitor locations as best>you can.>>The best way to tell if everything is going to work OK is to>move your mouse across all the screens after adjusting as>above. Your mouse should cross smoothly to the next monitor>at roughly the same level if you have everything set up right.> After this, the FS undock feature should work as advertised. >You should be able to move any other non-maximised desktop>window around in this fashion.>>GaryGary, you are precisely right on that. I had been fooling with it for more than an hour before realizing XP thought the monitor was to the right. Fixed that, and I can now move the undocked windows into the second monitor.BUT, it seems that something in this setup has confused my TrackIRPro w/Vector mode. When I run fs in VC mode, I get no response at all from the TIR. TIR has been running fine. Wondering if there is a conflict with the multi-monitor as there was with Active Camera. I really would like to use AC but when it is running (trial - KSEA area only), the TIR won't function properly either.As wonderful as many of these add-ons are, they often inhibit, or step on each other.donmac

Yes, Ron, I had that option checked... the initial problem was I confused XP by failing to move the image to the left.Thanks.donmac

Sorry donmac, I can't offer any help with the TrackIRPro or AC side of things as I have neither of these addons. If you don't find the info you need here, I suggest using the forums of, or contacting support for, these particular addons.Gary

Thanks for the help and good pointers!Got it working successfully. Required a reinstall of TIRPro but that did it.It's like a totally different ballgame. TrackIR for looking around and the popups on the second monitor. Great!