UltraMon, A Must Have For Dual Monitors

Posted on November 17, 2006, under Development.

I have two Samsung SyncMaster 930b monitors on my main desktop. I love dual monitors, even better than a widescreen monitor. I would love to get a third one, but we will see how the cards play out. Windows, by default doesn’t play well with dual monitors. The taskbar doesn’t extend to both monitors, icons placement gets messed up regularly, application placement is a hassle, and overall it just isn’t fun. I have tried many small applications that solve certain problems however UltraMon will solve all of the problems above and make dual monitor support on Windows a breeze.

UltraMon will sit in your system tray, and run at startup. I has a slew of great features. My favorite has to be the Smart Taskbar. The smart taskbar has two main options: it can mirror you taskbar so that both monitors have the same taskbar, or each monitor can have it’s own taskbar. It’s great to allow each monitor to have it’s own taskbar, that way you have your work space and then a side monitor that has application you use infrequently. Let’s say you are developing and watching Diggnation, common thing for me. Well on Desktop ‘A’ I have my favorite IDE, and on Monitor ‘B’ I have iTunes with Diggnation playing. That way my main desktop and monitor do not have too much junk cluttering up the taskbar. Excellent!

UltraMon also has the ability to add a “quick switch” button next to the minimize and close button. This allows you to switch an application back and forth from one monitor to another with a single click. Great when you need to get an application out of the way.

Desktop icon management has it’s quirks with Windows alone, add another monitor and it gets that much worse. UltraMon has a great little option that will save your Icon positions. This is great for when something messes up your desktop icons, with the click of a button you can restore their positions. Not having to ever rearrange your desktop icons again is a priceless feature. Furthermore, you can have UltraMon restore icon positions at system startup.

UltraMon come packed with a bunch of other features, but the ones I listed make it worth the relatively small investment of $39.99.

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