"MultiMon Taskbar - Must have tool for multi-monitor user"
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"Give someone a second monitor, let them use it for while, and then try to take it away. It just isn't going to happen.",

Suzanne Ross, Microsoft Research

Multi-Monitor TaskBar address this problem.

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What you need for Multiple Monitor support
You need a good multi-monitor video card such as Matrox DualHead, ATI Radeon with dual monitor or NVidia with dual monitor.
And then you need two monitors and operating system such as Win XP or Vista which has multimonitor support.

Other alternative is to use your AGP video card as primary monitor and then add second PCI card as second monitor. (An on-board AGP video can't be used with another AGP)
For three monitors you can use dual AGP video card and another PCI video card.

Then on the Display Properties, select the additional monitor(s) and check "Extend my Windows Desktop onto this monitor".

Three monitors:

In my own setup Monitor 1 is PCI Radeon 7000, Monitor 2 and 3 are both served by single Radeon 9600.

MultiMon Task bar
The real multi-monitor support in Windows has task-bar only in the primary monitor. The extended monitors are plain "takbarless". There is no other way to add another taskbar to the extended monitor.

MultiArrows
This is a modification of the above taskbar without the taskbar... Only arrows will be displayed on the title bar of the application and you can use them to move the windows to side monitors - but no additional taskbar (or anything else) will be created for the extra monitors. Download it here. This has no installation, just unzip it anywhere and run it (eventually add shortcut to Start up). Obviously you don't want to run this and the mmtaskabar at the same time.

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Normal Windows XP or Vista:

All windows are displayed on the primary monitors taskbar regardless on which monitor they are opened.

With Multimon Taskbar:

Second Task bar is added to the extended monitor and it displays item from that monitor while primary taskbar displays items from the primary window...

TaskBar (freeware)

It adds second taskbar to the extended desktop on Monitor 2

• It can add third taskbar to the second Extended monitor if you have 3 monitors setup.
• It shows only applications from that Monitor
  
• It hides the applications on Monitor 2 and 3 from normal Windows Taskbar
• Adds a Move to Monitor button to windows applications (XP).
• Add Text Clipboard Extender
• Buttons to roll-right the taskbar (good for full screen Remote Desktop)
• Very carefully written, I don't want to crash my own desktop!

TaskBar PRO (shareware)
Additionally to the free version:

• Support for Windows XP, Media Center (Royale on XP) and Vista (Royale Noir) themes
• Add buttons to resize window across two or three monitors (good for spreadsheets etc..)
• Move To Monitor buttons on the extended taskbar can move even special windows like Remote Desktop Client
• Better handling moving windows across screens with different resolutions
• Monitors Remote Desktop and can Suspend itself when you are in RD session, then restore itself after RD session is finished
• Support for dual monitors if the primary monitor is on right
• Themed Caption (arrow) buttons on Themed XP
• More consistent behavior of taskbar - cliciking on selected item will now minimize its window, like with original windows taskbar

A quick look at the items and options on Secdondary Task-Bar (Vista theme):

Tip: To change theme of your Multimon PRO taskbar click the Properties Button (or right click on empty space of the Multimon taskbar), click on Properties item in menu and change the Appearance. The theme of the MultiMon is independent from the Windows theme, so you can run Classic theme on your main XP taskbar and Vista theme on your extended Multimon taskbars.

XP Royale theme: Royale theme is a special XP theme from Microsoft that was later used on XP Media Center Edition (blue version) and it become also blueprint for Vista theme (noir version). So if you use blue Royale theme on your XP, select Windows Media Center theme in MultiMon to match the taskbars. If you use Royale Noir, select Vista theme to match the taskbars.

Move To Monitor Button (XP only)
It adds this button to every window and by clicking on it it will move the window to the other monitor. The arrow even change direction to point to which monitor it will move...

If you use the 3 Monitors setup then the center (Primary) monitor buttons will give you choice to move window to either right monitor or left monitor.

Tip: You can now use Hot-Keys CTRL+SHIFT+arrow to move the current window left or right!

Vista Tip: Vista use hardware acceleration for its aero theme with direct writing to the display buffer. It would be therefore risky to add arrow buttons to the aero application bar. However the "secret" hotspots for the arrow buttons (visibly pictured on the XP theme above) are still there and fully functional.

Clipboard Extender
A simple but cool Text clipboard extender can be added to the toolbar. It can be also rolled in or totally disabled.

This little box will capture all text Copy to clipboard operation and store. Other hidden functionality of Clipboard extender:
F3 - Search. Type any text and press F3, it will quickly search for the presence of this text in all stored copy operations and select matches.
F5 - type any text and it will try to execute it. Type for example calc and press F5
Return - type any text and press return, it will be added to the clipboard list (and also copied to clipboard)
DEL - unroll the combo box so you see multiple items, Move cursor over item so it is selected (but don't click) and press DEL to remove it from list.

Resize across monitors (PRO version)

Many programs, like spreadsheets, text editors, graphic programs have a MDI interface which means all client windows can be positioned only within the main program window. You can't display documents in single application side by side on different monitors because you are still limited within the main application window:

Taskbar PRO has simple buttons to resize the main window across two or even three monitors and you can then simply move the documents around side by side.

Think about how MultiMonitor Taskbar can increase your productivity many times!

Download
MM Taskbar Free 2.1	MMTaskbar21.exe (~500kB)
MM Taskbar PRO 3.0 (Trial)	MMTprotrial3.exe (~500kB)

How to Install it
Run installation. It will add itself to the Startup menu.

Note: If you upgrading from any previous version, make sure it is not running (Properties - Unload Taskbar)!