It’s hard to believe that with as cheap and as popular as LCD monitors are becoming, that an application such as Multimonitor Taskbar, hasn’t come along with several other competitors. My old job I used a dual monitor setup, but always found it extremely annoying that the Windows Taskbar did not extend to the second monitor. I did my research and came up with the amazing application, called UltraMon. Ultramon simply extended your taskbar to your second, third, or sixth monitor, and display the application as it should, on the secondary monitor. The fallback, a single license ran $39.95 and although worth it, was still a lot of money for what it did. I spent hours, days and months trying to find a freeware app, that did the same thing, but never did.
Well finally, just a few years later…Martin, the genius over at GHacks has finally come up with a free application that does the same thing.
The program is simply called ‘MultiMonitor Taskbar’ and does everything that Ultramon does, offers a freeware version, but also offers a Pro version. The pro version adds theme support, more flexibility with windows movement, and a few other minor features. The free version gives you essentially everything you need, and much more.
So, if you do have multiple monitors and are using Windows Vista or XP, you need to jump on this incredibly user friendly and stable application.
MultiMonitor Taskbar – via GHacks
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November 4th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
This is nice. I have an old monitor lying at home. Thinking of using it now.
November 4th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
@Madhur Kapoor -
Yeah, I wish I had extra monitors lying around.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Let me turn your attention to another clever peace of software that has a bunch of multi-monitor abilities (such as multi-monitor taskbar with the Start button on each display, Task Switcher window cloned onto all monitors, fast switching of windows between monitors, and many others) – Actual Window Manager (http://www.actualtools.com/windowmanager/). It also has many other useful tools besides the multi-monitor support so that I suppose it deserves a try, at least (though it’s not free but many users worldwide consider it worths its price).
December 5th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
@Alex Fadeyev – Awesome, thanks for the additional info.
December 27th, 2008 at 8:44 am
I have an old monitor just laying here. I think i will use it again now
Thanks for the post !
January 16th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Yeah, I wish I had extra monitors lying around.thanks.
February 19th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Great tips thanks! Just forwarded over to my partner he has three monitors hooked up and is going crazy duplicating the start menu on all! Thanks again!
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:24 am
@vrbo – Glad I could be of assistance.
March 12th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
If anyone is using windows 7 this works, and ultramon does not.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
I use this multiple monitors in my office and since I have this configuration, I swear my productivity has increased by 50% .
March 30th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
I use UltraMon on my second Monitor at home and it works great.
May 4th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
I gave MultiMonitor Taskbar a try and its better than ultramon
May 11th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Windows 7 is out?
Anyway, this comes in handy for designers. It is always useful to have 2 monitors for design to increase real estate. This is a perfect tool, thanks!