It was time to look for new wallpaper for my desktop, but this time I had a new idea – a wallpaper for each monitor! Since my friend had already told me about the Google Pack (Google Pack requires Windows XP or Vista. Here is Mac Version) I already have the dual monitor Google Photos Screensaver. Now it was time for dual monitor wallpaper!

The first site I found was http://www.csbmb.princeton.edu/~smcclure/dualmonitor.html posted by S. McClure of Princeton University, and as a nice added touch they are completely free. As a bonus since the page is on princeton.edu I felt 100% safe.

My Google Search for dual monitor wallpapers was fruitful as well, and not surprisingly some of the pages there also had some of S. McClure’s dual monitor wallpapers, I will assume with permission.

This is great! No longer am I stuck with 2 monitors displaying the same exact wallpaper, now it simply stretches across both monitors.

TIPS TO GETTING YOUR DUAL WALLPAPERS ‘WORKING’

1. In Windows XP, and I assume other operating systems and Windows verisons, you have to set the wallpaper to ’tile’, otherwise it may not appear correctly.

2. You may have to re-size the wallpapers, especially if you have 2 different sized monitors.

3. There are lots of wallpapers, so look for nice, hi-res shots that are already wide, VS those that are merely smaller versions stretched out. I saw some of the latter and they weren’t very attractive stretched across all of that monitor real estate.

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