Best software: Multiple screens, multiple wallpapers

[mattbirk]

You all would know best, what is the best software to use for having multiple wallpapers for multiple monitors?

I am using WinXP Pro SP3

Also, where would I get replacement icons for a lot of standard programs like Chrome, and replacements for My Computer, My Documents, Recycle Bin, etc

 

[MoodyBlues]

You all would know best, what is the best software to use for having multiple wallpapers for multiple monitors?

Do you mean PHYSICAL monitors? Is that how Micro$oft still makes its users have more than one desktop? Incredible! We've had multiple desktops in *nix for DECADES. See this blog post for an idea of what you could have if you switched to Linux.

 

[Isthmus]

Ona a single screen you can have multiple desktops with different wallpapers arranged like a cube. There is a piece of software called Yod'm 3d which will give you a cubical desktop in windows. The old version will give you four sides of the cube, while the paid version, which sells under the name DeskSpace, will give you all six sides of a cube.

Here is a picture of one of my XP rigs with this desktop enabled. you can see the different wallpapers on each side.

I agree with Moodyblues, BTW, Linux does multiple desktops like nobody's business, regardless of distribution.

 

[mattbirk]

I am on my work PC, so I don't have the choice of Linux. I have it on a few at home, it's nice and all, but I just don't know how to use it as well as Windows products...I even know Macs more than Linux. I have the basics down, but yea.

Anyways, thanks for the suggestion.

My question may have been confusing, but I have dual monitors and want a separate wall paper on each monitor is what I meant, not actually having multiple desktops like Linux.

 

[mikedt]

I am on my work PC, so I don't have the choice of Linux. I have it on a few at home, it's nice and all, but I just don't know how to use it as well as Windows products...I even know Macs more than Linux. I have the basics down, but yea.

Anyways, thanks for the suggestion.

My question may have been confusing, but I have dual monitors and want a separate wall paper on each monitor is what I meant, not actually having multiple desktops like Linux.

I'm quite sure Windows doesn't support multiple wallpapers and different screens as standard, there probably is third-party software to do this. But as this is your 'work PC', presumably at your office and is company property. You shouldn't really be installing unauthorised third-party software on it. If you are able to, IT haven't done their job properly with locking down the office PCs and keeping things secure.

 

[mattbirk]

I am in IT. I can. Users cannot.
And I already know it's not built in Windows, which is why I was asking OPINIONS on what SOFTWARE other people used and like.

Just trying to see what other THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE other people used.

Thanks for touching base on policy.

 

[MoodyBlues]

I am on my work PC, so I don't have the choice of Linux. I have it on a few at home, it's nice and all, but I just don't know how to use it as well as Windows products...I even know Macs more than Linux. I have the basics down, but yea.

I just want to throw out there that Linux isn't--or certainly shouldn't be--difficult to use. My mother is over 80 and she uses Kubuntu Linux all day long, effortlessly. And she's the most computer illiterate person I know! I wiped her drive, installed Kubuntu, added a few hundred apps I thought she'd enjoy, and told her to have at it. She needed no instruction or hand holding--she just dove right in and has been a happy Linux user ever since. So I'm a little confused as to why you're having difficulties. Which distro are you using? Regardless, I highly recommend Kubuntu. It's beautiful, extremely customizable, and very easy to use. Although I recommend it to windows converts, I use it myself--and I've been a *nix user since the good old days of text only, command prompt only!

 

[mplevy]

Realtime Soft UltraMon will do this. It will also add a taskbar to the second monitor for the apps open on that monitor.

 

[mattbirk]

I just want to throw out there that Linux isn't--or certainly shouldn't be--difficult to use. My mother is over 80 and she uses Kubuntu Linux all day long, effortlessly. And she's the most computer illiterate person I know! I wiped her drive, installed Kubuntu, added a few hundred apps I thought she'd enjoy, and told her to have at it. She needed no instruction or hand holding--she just dove right in and has been a happy Linux user ever since. So I'm a little confused as to why you're having difficulties. Which distro are you using? Regardless, I highly recommend Kubuntu. It's beautiful, extremely customizable, and very easy to use. Although I recommend it to windows converts, I use it myself--and I've been a *nix user since the good old days of text only, command prompt only!

I am on the distro MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP PRO

I am NOT using Linux...

...nvm.