Dual Headers on my Monitors

https://www.dropbox.com/s/508f5bk1m3pk7uw/Screenshot%202014-06-04%2013.46.38.png
I use to have only one TOP MENU, Now I have it on both Monitors.
How do clear the top menu?
When I am running Photopshop, But screens have the same menu.
This use not to be.

Ok, I know that this shouldn't be posted here..
lol.
Ah well, here goes.
I think your laptop uses a SATA / IDE controller for which the default windows xp CD has no drivers.
I believe this is the driver you need:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloa … eid=224400
You can extract that .exe file with winrar and then use something like nlite to combine the drivers with the windows xp installation cd. Your newly created xp installation cd will then have the required drivers to access your laptops harddrive.
Alternatively I think you can place the extracted driver files on a USB disk and introduce then to the windows XP installer via the F6 key.
Google knows, my friend
http://www.google.com/search?q=dell+ins … windows+xp
On the upside, installing arch should not be a problem at all!
Last edited by stefanwilkens (2008-12-10 23:57:57)

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Here are some ramblingthoughts on your issue. They expand on the good advice you've already received, and thus do not dispute what others have said.
Make certain your drivers for the graphics card are the latest and greatest. This is the first step you should take. You probably have already done that. If not, go do it. But check the next paragraph first.
If your graphics card has a DVI output, by all means use it. If it doesn't, opt for a different graphics card, preferably one with two DVI outputs, known as a dual-head graphics card. I address this again below.
Life is too short to drink cheap wine. It's also too short to spend a professional career working with inadequate computing resources, especially when you consider the cost of the capital outlay versus the salaries and the wasted time fooling around trying to make things right. If your employer has artificial limits on spending, go make a business case for better gear.
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A CRT monitor also has a "native resolution" based on the pitch of the phosphor triads and the shadow mask in the tube. Because that was an analog interfaced world, and CRTs are relatively "soft" compared to LCDs, the effects of non-native scan rates and resolution settings were not as troublesome or as obvious as they are for LCD screens. Once you get the settings right on your LCD display, though, you will NEVER consider going back to a CRT display.
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