Multiple screen use & VPN & resolution

[Swither]

Ok, at work got given a new laptop and a nice 22" wide screen.

We use a remote desktop for our systems and it seems I can't easily use the monitor & the laptop screen at the same time?

What I want to do is have my email etc on the laptop screen and spreadsheets open on the monitor.

As these are on the remote desktop I cannot figure out how I can get the monitor screen to use it's own resolution, as it uses the laptop resolution which looks crap.

Any ideas? Oh and win7 btw.

 

[Gottaa]

Normally you can't split screen across monitors on a laptop, the key (I think control F5 normally) to switch it on at best will duplicate on the laptop and monitor, at worse only show one at a time, you need a more meaty video card to support dual monitors. So the answer is probably that you can't

 

[Swither]

Yeah found out that remote desktops won't let me do what I thought I could do.

 

[StGeorge]

Not sure what you mean by remote desktops but Windows 7 does allow you to extend your desktop across dual screens. You can also have different resolutions for each screen.

 

[Elcar]

There is a limitation with some versions of Windows to 'Use all my monitors for the remote session' for remote desktop connections. I remember having problems with remoting to a Windows 7 Pro client PC and being unable to use all monitors, whereas remoting to Windows Server 2003 it was enabled. I think I remember finding a MS answer to the question where they said this was deliberately disabled for Windows 7 Pro.