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How to avoid the invisible wall effect when multi monitors with different resolutions?

Joan M7-Jan-14 20:33

7-Jan-14 20:33

Hello all,

In Windows 7, when using a multi monitor set up, and each monitor has different resolutions, you will notice that when you move the mouse from the smallest monitor to the biggest one it always works well, but when you do it in the other way, from the big one to the small one, some times it fails.

Let me explain, assuming that the top of the display is the vertical coordinate 0, if you have the mouse pointer in a vertical position bigger than the maximum resolution of the smaller display the mouse cursor will "collide" to an invisible wall.

Is there any way to avoid that? (apart of course than using two monitors of the exact resolution or to set both monitors to the same resolution).

As probably my explanation won't be the best one you will have seen, here you can read more about it: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/34796-63-dual-monitors-resolutions-sizes[^]

Any idea?

My configuration is:

- Laptop with 1280x800 resolution and one analog display with 1920x1080 resolution.
- Windows 7.
- ATI Catalyst control center with a Radeon mobility HD 3650 graphics card.

PS: It is not ultra annoying it is something like when the mouse cable gets trapped and you can't move where you want... yes, it is ultra-annoying.

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Re: How to avoid the invisible wall effect when multi monitors with different resolutions?

Bernhard Hiller7-Jan-14 21:08

Bernhard Hiller

7-Jan-14 21:08

I found it annoying only for a few days, then I got used to it.

Re: How to avoid the invisible wall effect when multi monitors with different resolutions?

Joan M7-Jan-14 21:11

Joan M

7-Jan-14 21:11

That's definitely not the answer I expected Laugh | :laugh:

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Re: How to avoid the invisible wall effect when multi monitors with different resolutions?

Albert Holguin8-Jan-14 16:12

Albert Holguin

8-Jan-14 16:12

In that case... get a smaller second monitor... Poke tongue | ;-P

Re: How to avoid the invisible wall effect when multi monitors with different resolutions?

Joan M8-Jan-14 18:53

Joan M

8-Jan-14 18:53

Argh!

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Re: How to avoid the invisible wall effect when multi monitors with different resolutions?

Albert Holguin9-Jan-14 9:37

Albert Holguin

9-Jan-14 9:37

You're welcome... we're here to help fix problems... Big Grin | :-D

Re: How to avoid the invisible wall effect when multi monitors with different resolutions?

Joan M9-Jan-14 21:47

Joan M

9-Jan-14 21:47

You can't be serious... Laugh | :laugh:

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Re: How to avoid the invisible wall effect when multi monitors with different resolutions?

Albert Holguin10-Jan-14 4:47

Albert Holguin

10-Jan-14 4:47

Re: How to avoid the invisible wall effect when multi monitors with different resolutions?

Shameel21-Jan-14 23:41

Shameel

21-Jan-14 23:41

Simples. Before moving your cursor from he bigger monitor to the smaller one, position your cursor within the co-ordinates of the smaller monitor and then move the cursor. Wink | ;-)

Re: How to avoid the invisible wall effect when multi monitors with different resolutions?

Joan M22-Jan-14 2:11

Joan M

22-Jan-14 2:11

You can't even imagine the amount of fun I'm getting with a simple serious question... Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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Re: How to avoid the invisible wall effect when multi monitors with different resolutions?

Shameel22-Jan-14 2:26

Shameel

22-Jan-14 2:26

Welcome to CodeProject Smile | :)

Re: How to avoid the invisible wall effect when multi monitors with different resolutions?

Joan M22-Jan-14 5:41

Joan M

22-Jan-14 5:41

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Re: How to avoid the invisible wall effect when multi monitors with different resolutions?

Eddy Vluggen22-Jan-14 8:44

Eddy Vluggen

22-Jan-14 8:44

That wall should be there; one screen is essentially larger than the other, so the behaviour is correct. It'd also become very confusing if Windows tried to guess where you'd want your mouse to be.

The only way to get rid of it is by having the same resolution on both screens.

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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

Re: How to avoid the invisible wall effect when multi monitors with different resolutions?

Joan M24-Jan-14 4:31

Joan M

24-Jan-14 4:31

Well, of course I understand why it is there Big Grin | :-D

.

When using Mouse without borders in the office with my main computer together with my laptop this is not happening and resolutions of both devices are completely different.

This could be implemented and it would improve the experience in most of the situations as there are really not much applications that are using the first pixel of the display, typically there are margins around that would avoid the mess to happen.

I've been wondering if anyone has developed that already...

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Blocking an intranet ip

ramacharyg3-Jan-14 20:17

ramacharyg

3-Jan-14 20:17

Hi i have configured open Dns alternatively for un restricting for certain users i have configured in tcp/ip of general tab to use dns servers and there i specified the intranet domain ip so know i want to restrict all the users to use the open dns irrespective of configuration, hows its possible without manually going to do lap to lap is there any way pls suggest me

Re: Blocking an intranet ip

Bernhard Hiller6-Jan-14 22:10

Bernhard Hiller

6-Jan-14 22:10

What about Group Policies?

Re: Blocking an intranet ip

ramacharyg6-Jan-14 23:14

ramacharyg

6-Jan-14 23:14

i haven't used the group policy

Accessing Public IP address

forme22-Dec-13 23:47

forme

22-Dec-13 23:47

Hi! Greetings of the day,
I have a windows 2003 server and have recently configured it to act as a router by doing NAT configuration. I have a public IP address provided by my ISP.I have a web application hosted on one of my internal servers and able to access the application on LAN. How do I access the same application using my public IP address?

Re: Accessing Public IP address

Jochen Arndt23-Dec-13 1:21

Jochen Arndt

23-Dec-13 1:21

Just setup a static mapping on your NAT server for the web server in your local network. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb878046.aspx[^] on how to do this.

Re: Accessing Public IP address

forme23-Dec-13 23:02

forme

23-Dec-13 23:02

Thank you so much for your quick response..
On "Services and port" tab how do I enable "On this address pool entry"?

Thank you in advance

Re: Accessing Public IP address

Jochen Arndt23-Dec-13 23:25

Jochen Arndt

23-Dec-13 23:25

If the option is grayed out you have probably not defined an address pool. This can be done in the 'Adress Pool' tab. But this is for multiple IP adresses assigned by your ISP. If you have only one public IP address, you can use the 'On this interface option'.

Scripting MMC with vbscript.

Dan Kamp17-Dec-13 5:00

Dan Kamp

17-Dec-13 5:00

Hi,

I am a bit out of my depth here so I have some questions. At my site we do unattended installs and configuration of our machines. I would like to script the install of a mmc snap in but have come to an impasse. I have found some sample code but I cannot find documentation to take me further. I would like to add the Group Policy Object Editor which I can do. But I want to further configure it to the local policy/Non-administrators which is where I get suck.

Below is what I have so far any and all help will be welcome. Thanks in advance.

d

VBScript

'Start of UAC workaround code

If WScript.Arguments.length =0 Then
  Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")

  objShell.ShellExecute "wscript.exe", Chr(34) & _
  WScript.ScriptFullName & Chr(34) & " uac", "", "runas", 1
Else

'start code here

'################################################
' VARIABLE DECLARATIONS
'################################################
'Option Explicit
Dim objSCANode
Dim objMMC

'################################################
' EXECUTE 'Open Database...' MENU ITEM
'################################################ 
Set objMMC = CreateObject("MMC20.Application")

objMMC.Document.SnapIns.Add("Group Policy Object Editor")
objMMC.Show
Set objSCANode = objMMC.Document.ScopeNamespace.GetChild(objMMC.Document.RootNode)
objMMC.Document.ActiveView.Select objSCANode
objMMC.Document.ActiveView.SelectionContextMenu.Item(2).Execute


'################################################
' DEBUG LINES
'################################################
wscript.Echo "objMMC.Document.RootNode.Name: " + objMMC.Document.RootNode.Name
wscript.Echo "objMMC.Document.ScopeNamespace.GetChild(objMMC.Document.RootNode): " + objSCANode.Name ' "Group Policy Object Editor"
wscript.Echo "objMMC.Document.ActiveView.Memento (objSCANode.Name): " + objMMC.Document.ActiveView.Memento
wscript.Echo "objMMC.Document.ActiveView.Selection.Item(1): " + objMMC.Document.ActiveView.Selection.Item(1).Name
wscript.Echo "objMMC.Document.ActiveView.SelectionContextMenu.Item(2).DisplayName: " + objMMC.Document.ActiveView.SelectionContextMenu.Item(2).DisplayName
wscript.Echo "objMMC.Document.ActiveView.SelectionContextMenu.Item(2).Path: " + objMMC.Document.ActiveView.SelectionContextMenu.Item(2).Path

'end of code here

end if
'end or UAC code

DNS

goutom14-Dec-13 23:25

goutom

14-Dec-13 23:25

When a client request for a ip in dns server it get the ip after resolve. Now the client knows the ip of the web server it requested. But when client click a link in the page within the domain, i want to know how now client will connect with web server i.e via ip or name. what is the task of reverse lookup zone.

Re: DNS

Richard MacCutchan15-Dec-13 0:45

Richard MacCutchan

15-Dec-13 0:45

Given a URI of the form host.organisation.suffix, the name will be sent via DNS to a system that can resolve names belonging to the suffix group (e.g. .com, .org etc). That system can then pass off to a system that can resolve names by organisation, and lastly to a system that can resolve host names in an organisation to an IP address.

Veni, vidi, abiit domum

Cisco Router Configuration Assistance

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar29-Nov-13 0:53

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

29-Nov-13 0:53

I would like to seek some one's ideas and/or assistance regarding Cisco E900 router configuration w.r.t. downloads and security bypassing. The original thread is located here:

How to block continous downloads?[^]

As per peer suggestion in Lounge, I am placing a pointer question here, in lieu of multi-posting.

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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