

One of these is the nice and spiffy RocketDock. Fortunately clever coders have created several clones of this application that run in Windows environments. But that doesn’t mean I’m not willing to say that Steve Jobs and his fruity company hasn’t come up with some briliant ideas. It’s no secret that I’m a Windows guy and I have less than kind things to say about it’s rival the Mac. The application is light and easy to use and combined with a Mandolux wallpaper the result (as seen at the top of this article) is quite stunning. After some trial and error I landed on DisplayFusion – a free multi-monitor desktop wallpaper application that runs on both XP and Vista alike. When I came across the beautiful Mandolux multi-monitor wallpapers I decided that now was the time so I started digging around on the web for a small app that would let me split my desktop in half so to speak.

I’ve been working with two screens for years and a cohesive background graphic for my workspace has always been one of the items on my wishlist. One of the things that has bugged me from day one was that out of the box neither XP nor Vista allowed you to have different wallpapers on different screens if you have a dual screen setup.

Get a Dual-Monitor Wallpaper with DisplayFusion Along the way I found some useful applications and some nice tricks that I’d like to share with you. Having switched to Windows Vista not too long ago and just bought a new laptop I spent some time customizing my desktops to increase functionality and decrease clutter. Sitting in front of a computer about 80% of your working day it is important that your work environment – that is your desktop – is both visually pleasing and functional.
