Some Help With Dual Screens

Craggles

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On my primary monitor I've run a 360 and my Windows 7 p.c into it. I've set up a shortcut hotkey so that I can disable the primary to swap to the 360 when needs be. However I'd like to be able to access the web whilst using my 360 without having to cycle through the monitor menu to swap back. So I got my old monitor on my desk, however I can't think what to do with it. It's got a lower resolution than my primary so simply making it the secondary whenever I want to use the 360 isn't viable (it messes up the icons). I can't think of any work around, using ultramon and shrinking the main image isn't very good either due to it having both delay and a lower framerate even at the the highest systme usage settings. Can you guys think of any work arounds? I've tried saving the icon positions but then firefox still opens in the main monitor. I really would like to swap monitors on the fly with a hotkey and restore icons later.
 

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I'm not sure this is what you mean but have you tried holding down the windows key and hitting the P key?
 

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HP DV8t quad
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i7-Q 720
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Motherboard Chipset Intel Ibex Peak-M PM55, Intel Lynnfield
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diy
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Win7 pro x64
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stock i7 7700k
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Gigabyte Z270N-WIFI mini-ITX
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Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 @ 3200MHz
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integrated Intel HD 630
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onboard Realtek ALC1220
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two vertically mounted samsung 55" 4k un55mu8000
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Thansk for the windows + p solution, that's very sufficient. Is there anyway of having 2 different icon setups for 2 different resolutions?
 

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OS
Windows 7 64 Bit
CPU
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz Quad-Core
Motherboard
ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 ATX LGA1155
Memory
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600
Graphics Card(s)
Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 2GB
Monitor(s) Displays
Acer V243HAJbd 24.0"
Hard Drives
Crucial M4 128GB 2.5" SSD
PSU
Corsair 650W ATX12V / EPS12V
Case
Fractal Design DEFINE R3 (White) ATX Mid Tower
Cooling
Noctua NH-D14 65.0 CFM
not sure about that
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
diy
OS
Win7 pro x64
CPU
stock i7 7700k
Motherboard
Gigabyte Z270N-WIFI mini-ITX
Memory
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 @ 3200MHz
Graphics Card(s)
integrated Intel HD 630
Sound Card
onboard Realtek ALC1220
Monitor(s) Displays
two vertically mounted samsung 55" 4k un55mu8000
Screen Resolution
1920x1280
Hard Drives
256GB Samsung EVO 960 M.2 pci-e NVMe SSD
PSU
SilverStone Nightjar ST45NF 450Watt Fanless
Case
No case. Motherboard is mounted directly onto power supply
Cooling
Evercool low profile 815EP with Panaflow 12L fan at 7v
Keyboard
Ortek MCK-86 mini
Mouse
Belkin 5-button USB
Internet Speed
spectrum 400mbps
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