In this article i will show you a small tool named “switcher”. Maybe you know the feature expose on mac OS S, Switcher enables this on Windows Vista and Windows 7 Clients. I guess if you install Switcher you never use “alt” & “tab” and “win” & “tab” again.

Administration, Software, Windows, Windows 7 expose, switcher, Windows 7

You can’t imagine how frustrated I was when I received my new dell business notebook with Core i7 (hyperthreading) when I tried to attach two external monitors to the docking station while running the laptop screen as third monitor… It’s just not possible! As a software developer it is really helpful to have three monitors. I usually have the following work setup when having three monitors (normally 20” with 1600×1200):

First monitor (primary with taskbar):

VS2010 with just the solution explorer and properties pane visible as needed

Second monitor (with extended taskbar from ultramon):

Resharper 5.1 windows such as file structure, unit test explorer and unit test session (those are the most important for me)

Third monitor (with extended taksbar from ultramon):

Firefox, Skype and Email, usually also documentation (which I’m currently writing or user documentation when help is needed)

With only two monitors you always need to move around the resharper windows when you want to browse or read a tutorial on the internet. This sucks!

Two eliminate this problem when using the business laptop I was looking around for a USB to DVI adapter and found finally a good one which has arrived last week by postal service. Gefen Ext-USB-2-DVIHD-CO! Let me describe it.

Hardware, Software, Windows, Windows 7

Since we use the new terminal client from microsoft we register sometimes obscure reactions. For example: program flipping while pressing the tab key solo, get the dialog which is shown normally pressing ‘Ctr-Alt-Del’ while pressing the delete key solo.

Windows flipp, mstsc, remote desctop, tab, tabulator, terminal client, Windows

Since a few months I’m working in a new project where we have remote PC’s for developing. Since they updated the clients from Windows XP SP1 to SP3 we we have the new remote desktop client. Now it’s possible to show the terminal client on two monitors (or a monitor with a resolution over 1600×1200). We just had to do the following:

1. create a Shortcut to mstsc.exe
2. add as params
• /w:2560 (The screen witdth)
• /h:1024 (The screen height)
• /v:hostname

The link will look like this: mstsc.exe /w:2560 /h:1024 /v:hostname
Our expirience was it works not bad. The only thing we noticed was, the client needs more power.

Windows dual screen, mstsc, mulit monitor, Terminalclient, Windows, windows XP