Outlook 2003 - Multiple Monitors
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From: Scott on 22 Mar 2010 11:32 I have a user with multiple monitors(2 set up using extended desktop) running Windows XP Pro. WHat they would like to have happen is click one icon and have Outlook open on monitor 1 and then click another icon and have a second instance of Outlook open on monitor 2. Is this possible? Anyone figure out how to do this? The problem that i run in to is that Win XP always see's multiple instances of Outlook as one "program" and it cannot distinquish each Outlook icon as running a unique instance of Outlook. About the only thing i have accomplished is having Outlook always open on the same monitor but every instance opened after the fact (via different Outlook shortcut icons - desktop and quick launch) alaways opens on the same monitor
From: Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] on 22 Mar 2010 14:39 "Scott" <someone(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message news:6ad11$4ba78d4e$4ada8749$24585(a)FUSE.NET... >I have a user with multiple monitors(2 set up using extended desktop) running >Windows XP Pro. WHat they would like to have happen is click one icon and >have Outlook open on monitor 1 and then click another icon and have a second >instance of Outlook open on monitor 2. Is this possible? Anyone figure out >how to do this? The problem that i run in to is that Win XP always see's >multiple instances of Outlook as one "program" and it cannot distinquish each >Outlook icon as running a unique instance of Outlook. About the only thing i >have accomplished is having Outlook always open on the same monitor but every >instance opened after the fact (via different Outlook shortcut icons - >desktop and quick launch) alaways opens on the same monitor I don't think this can be done. Multiple montors in Windows aren't handled that way, as far as I can tell. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
From: Diane Poremsky [MVP] on 22 Mar 2010 15:06 you can only ever have one outlook profile open at a time. You can open multiple windows, with one on each monitor (ie calendar and mail). -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/ Outlook Tips by email: mailto:dailytips-subscribe-request(a)lists.outlooktips.net EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: mailto:EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST(a)PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM Do you sync your mailbox with a smartphone or pda? http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=39473 "Scott" <someone(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message news:6ad11$4ba78d4e$4ada8749$24585(a)FUSE.NET... > I have a user with multiple monitors(2 set up using extended desktop) > running Windows XP Pro. WHat they would like to have happen is click one > icon and have Outlook open on monitor 1 and then click another icon and > have a second instance of Outlook open on monitor 2. Is this possible? > Anyone figure out how to do this? The problem that i run in to is that Win > XP always see's multiple instances of Outlook as one "program" and it > cannot distinquish each Outlook icon as running a unique instance of > Outlook. About the only thing i have accomplished is having Outlook always > open on the same monitor but every instance opened after the fact (via > different Outlook shortcut icons - desktop and quick launch) alaways opens > on the same monitor >
From: Scott on 23 Mar 2010 07:53 The user currently does this...opens Outlook(same profile) twice(2 windows) then drags one window to monitor 2. was just trying to determine if there was a way to have this happen automatically...whatever automatic may entail...is there any hotkey command (Win XP Pro)that could be captured in a ..cmd or .bat file that would tell a program to move to monitor 2? I swear at one time this worked...user clicked icon on desktop and Outlook opened on mon 1 and then clicked icon in quick launch then Outlook window 2 opened on monitor #2...maybe this functionality was a fluke. understand that even though Outlook may have 2 windows of same profile open but as far as Windows...its only running once. "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" <outlookmvp(a)msn.com> wrote in message news:618D2107-82C1-4F5C-A25A-480DDEF4851E(a)microsoft.com... > you can only ever have one outlook profile open at a time. You can open > multiple windows, with one on each monitor (ie calendar and mail). > > -- > Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] > Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ > Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/ > > Outlook Tips by email: > mailto:dailytips-subscribe-request(a)lists.outlooktips.net > > EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: > mailto:EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST(a)PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM > > Do you sync your mailbox with a smartphone or pda? > http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=39473 > > > > "Scott" <someone(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message > news:6ad11$4ba78d4e$4ada8749$24585(a)FUSE.NET... >> I have a user with multiple monitors(2 set up using extended desktop) >> running Windows XP Pro. WHat they would like to have happen is click one >> icon and have Outlook open on monitor 1 and then click another icon and >> have a second instance of Outlook open on monitor 2. Is this possible? >> Anyone figure out how to do this? The problem that i run in to is that >> Win XP always see's multiple instances of Outlook as one "program" and it >> cannot distinquish each Outlook icon as running a unique instance of >> Outlook. About the only thing i have accomplished is having Outlook >> always open on the same monitor but every instance opened after the fact >> (via different Outlook shortcut icons - desktop and quick launch) alaways >> opens on the same monitor >>
From: Scott on 23 Mar 2010 08:10
The user currently does this...opens Outlook(same profile) twice(2 windows) then drags one window to monitor 2. was just trying to determine if there was a way to have this happen automatically...whatever automatic may entail...is there any hotkey command (Win XP Pro)that could be captured in a ..cmd or .bat file that would tell a program to move to monitor 2? I swear at one time this worked...user clicked icon on desktop and Outlook opened on mon 1 and then clicked icon in quick launch then Outlook window 2 opened on monitor #2...maybe this functionality was a fluke. understand that even though Outlook may have 2 windows of same profile open but as far as Windows...its only running once. "Scott" <someone(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message news:6ad11$4ba78d4e$4ada8749$24585(a)FUSE.NET... >I have a user with multiple monitors(2 set up using extended desktop) >running Windows XP Pro. WHat they would like to have happen is click one >icon and have Outlook open on monitor 1 and then click another icon and >have a second instance of Outlook open on monitor 2. Is this possible? >Anyone figure out how to do this? The problem that i run in to is that Win >XP always see's multiple instances of Outlook as one "program" and it >cannot distinquish each Outlook icon as running a unique instance of >Outlook. About the only thing i have accomplished is having Outlook always >open on the same monitor but every instance opened after the fact (via >different Outlook shortcut icons - desktop and quick launch) alaways opens >on the same monitor > |