Swaps the positions of the top two windows around. If you press the hotkey again on a window that has just been supersized, then the window is restored to its Or if you have a fixed taskbar displayed. This may mean that part(s) of the window may not be visible if your screens have different resolutions, If the active window can be resized, then it is made large enough to cover all screens. If it is already maximised, then it is restored. If the active window can be maximised, then it is maximised. If it is already minimised, then it is restored.
If the active window can be minimised, then it is minimised. This performs the opposite of Move active window to next screen. However you may find this combination is quite cumbersome in which case you can define your own simpler hotkey. If you are happy with this, then you can disable Swap Screen's hotkey for this.
If you are running Windows 7, then Windows 7 already provides this functionality with the This moves the active window onto the next screen, even if it is currently maximised. This contains hotkeys which have an impact on the active window only. Then you will be told that this is the case and you will be able to change the key combination to something different. This usually happens because that hotkey has already been assigned a use,Įither in this program or in another program or by Windows itself. Which allows you to specify which hotkeys to use for the various possible actions.īy default only the Move active window to next screen hotkey is enabled, but by clicking on theĪppropriate 'Change.' button, you can enable the other hotkeys and choose a suitable key combination for the hotkey.Ĭertain key combinations can not be used as hotkeys. Will find options to minimise all windows on individual monitors, and to move all application windowsĭouble clicking on the SwapScreen icon in the notification area will bring up the options screen Right clicking on the SwapScreen icon in the notification area will bring up its context menu where you When SwapScreen.exe is run it will put itself into the notification area of the taskbar. It also includes mouse/cursor control allowing you to lock the mouse onto a single screen or providing resistance to moving between screens. This includes features such as moving the current window to the next screen and minimising all windows on a single screen only. Follow the instructions below to change the external display settings.Swap Screen uses hotkeys to simplify the process of handling windows in a multiple monitor setup. Windows uses the term Duplicate instead of Mirroring. To turn on (or off) Desktop Mirror click the small icon of a monitor on the upper right side of the menu bar and select Turn On Mirroring Changing the Desktop Mirroring Setting Windows – Change External Display Mode In Extend Mode the external display is treated as a separate screen so that you can have a different windows open on the projector and desktop. It is easy to switch between the two settings. In Mirror Mode the computer monitor duplicates the monitor on the external display so that you see the same picture on both the desktop and projector.
When connected to an external display, Mac and Windows computers have two different display modes: Mirror and Extend.