Windows 7 - UltraMon

I downloaded Ultramon and I'm trying to use some of the windows 7 desktop backgrounds. I can't figure out how to do that. Does any body have an idea as to how to accomplish this task. I tried the dragging and dropping but all I get is a permissions window telling me I need permission to do that. I would like figure this out before I shell out $40 for it.

Right click the UltraMon icon in the taskbar notification area and go to "Wallpaper". You'll see a "Browse" button. Use it to go to the wallpaper you want to use. In the case of Win 7 backgrounds, you'd go to C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper and then the subfolder containing the picture you want to use. Use the "Stretch" style if you want to use a single monitor wallpaper across multiple monitors.

Thanks, I've been racking my brain trying to figure that out. + rep

The problem with using the Win 7 supplied wallpaper on multiple monitors is that you'll get some distortion since they're designed for single monitors. Luckily, there are many sites where you can download multi-monitor wallpaper created with the correct aspect ratio. Googling "multi monitor wallpaper" will find you hundreds.

TY for the rep.

Hi

You might also want to take a look at Display Fusion, I used to use UltraMon but for me I feel display Fusion is a better fit for Windows7 and is a more reasonable price.

DisplayFusion: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Desktop Wallpaper|Binary Fortress Software

Tom

Ultramon will let you put a different wallpaper on each monitor so the windows supplied wallpapers should work OK. I used Ultramon on my XP machine with dual monitors and found that option to be nice bonus. The real reason I installed it was the extra tool-bar buttons it added for easily moving open windows from one monitor to the other. Those buttons seem to missing when I tried it on windows 7 so I'm not using it now. The windows 7 keyboard shortcuts work just as well so I don't miss it. I have two 1280x1024 LCDs so i use 2560x1024 wide screen wallpapers tiled across my two monitors. The one image spans across both monitors.

Make sure you guys grab the latest version as it finally came out of beta a few days ago (took forever!)
Realtime Soft UltraMon

My version is 2.7.1 which may explain why I didn't get the toolbar buttons in windows 7. I've downloaded v3 and may try it at some point. Thanks for the heads up on the new version.

Looks like v3 is the ticket for windows 7. I got my buttons back for moving open windows from monitor to monitor. I've got the taskbar icon setup to disable/enable my secondary monitor when I double click it. Comes in handy when I want to play games on one monitor. Having different wallpapers on each monitor is nice too.

Glad it worked out. It looks like the new version got everything working as it should on windows 7