Do you want more space than what you are getting on the default monitor? GiMeSpace Desktop Extender does just that and saves the user from having to buy multiple monitors to fulfill their needs.
The free version of the app allows users to navigate horizontally, which means on moving the mouse to the right or left side of the monitor you get lots of extra space. In layman’s term, your desktop is extended horizontally in both directions.
While it was originally developed for Windows XP, integration with Windows 7 is seamless. It does not in any way alter the Aero Snap feature of Windows 7.
The space can be extended to a larger extent and in case you are lost, launch the GiMeSpace Control Panel from the system tray and click to where your windows are located. This is a great way of navigating between different windows located in the extended desktop.
The best part is that your taskbar and the desktop icons remain in the original position while you move horizontally across the desktop. You can also choose to move vertically or in both directions, but this feature is available in paid version only along with a bunch of extra features.
Watch the low quality demo below which is recorded by the developer in Windows XP.
It works seamlessly with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows.
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I’ve been searching everywhere (without success, so far) for a solution to my problem. I had hoped that since you folks know so much about Windows’ EXTENDED, VIRTUAL DESKTOP, that I could finally find a solution. But, there’s nothing on your web site about it.
My problem is that “suddenly” my Windows’ XP Home edition began using the EXTENDED DESKTOP, and I have no idea as to why. How do I STOP/QUIT/CONFIGURE or whatever to get my display back to NO EXTENDED DESKTOP? (I have ATI video, but it won’t let me).
ATI video cards give you the ability to set up a pan-and-scan virtual desktop, which this article calls an “extended, virtual desktop.” Your posts suggests that you suddenly got this expanded desktop and want to get rid of it.
Most likely you should open you ATI Catalyst Control Center.
Under Displays Manager, look at the “Displays Property.” Note what the “Desktop Area” is.
Under Monitor Properties, look at “Monitor Attributes.” If the “maximum resolution” is different than the “Desktop Area” under Displays Manager, you somehow inadvertently set up the pan-and-scan virtual desktop.
To eliminate the pan and scan virtual desktop and get a static desktop again, set the two resolutions to the same values. Make sure that these values are not great than your monitor’s “native resolution.” So if your monitor’s native resolution — namely what the manufacturer says its resolution is supposed to be — is 1600 x 1080, set the resolution for Desktop Area and Monitor Attributes to the same value.
For those of us who love the pan-and-scan virtual desktop for its productivity enhancing nature, be forewarned that you cannot set it up in Windows Vista or Windows 7, and that ATI’s CCC version 10.4 is the last one that lets you set it up in Windows XP. Why Microsoft would prevent this desktop extending tool from working is beyond me, except that they may be trying to force people into buying multiple monitors. Why ATI would disable it in newer versions of CCC also escapes me.
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