An Illustrator window on each of two monitors

Hi. I'm working on two Illustrator drawings simultaneously, so I want an Illustrator window on each of my two monitors.
The only way I can find is to drag-resize the entire Illustrator window so that it fills both monitors, and then drag-resize each of the drawing windows to fit an individual monitor. There must be a tidier method than this?? Most programs treat 'internal' windows as separate entities that can be moved between monitors.
Tried dragging windows but they won't move outside the overall Illustrator window.
Tried opening a new instance of Illustrator - won't allow more than one Illustrator process even if started as a new task through Task Manager.
Can't see anything in menus, Help or forums.

You don't mention your OS nor Illustrator version but in CS3 WinXP... that's the only way – AFAIK – to do it. Yes, it is a pain....
Cheers,
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