Is there any way to do it without programming
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I have a docking station that is plugged through USB (USB 3.0 pro dock from Lenovo). I do have a couple of extra displays connected there. In order to have a taskbar in all the displays (windows 7) I have a small program that make a copy of the taskbar to appear in all the displays. I would like to load automatically at the beginning (boot) this program only if the docking station is connected (external keyboard, mouse, displays and network are the devices that are always connected there). Do you think this could be done without programming? As always thank you in advance! :thumbsup:
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I have a docking station that is plugged through USB (USB 3.0 pro dock from Lenovo). I do have a couple of extra displays connected there. In order to have a taskbar in all the displays (windows 7) I have a small program that make a copy of the taskbar to appear in all the displays. I would like to load automatically at the beginning (boot) this program only if the docking station is connected (external keyboard, mouse, displays and network are the devices that are always connected there). Do you think this could be done without programming? As always thank you in advance! :thumbsup:
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Definitely a non-coding question then :) Probably... maybe... not quite sure how though. It would be quite easy to write a launcher though - just detect the number of screens and if it's more than one launch the taskbar duplicator. System.Windows.Forms.Screen.AllScreens will do the trick ;) What you are using to duplicate the task bar? I tried several programs a while back but couldn't find one I'm entirely happy with. Thx :)
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I have a docking station that is plugged through USB (USB 3.0 pro dock from Lenovo). I do have a couple of extra displays connected there. In order to have a taskbar in all the displays (windows 7) I have a small program that make a copy of the taskbar to appear in all the displays. I would like to load automatically at the beginning (boot) this program only if the docking station is connected (external keyboard, mouse, displays and network are the devices that are always connected there). Do you think this could be done without programming? As always thank you in advance! :thumbsup:
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Maybe not be a lot of help for Win7, but Win 10 supports this directly. Right-click on the Task Bar, select Properties, and check "Show Task Bar on all displays"
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Definitely a non-coding question then :) Probably... maybe... not quite sure how though. It would be quite easy to write a launcher though - just detect the number of screens and if it's more than one launch the taskbar duplicator. System.Windows.Forms.Screen.AllScreens will do the trick ;) What you are using to duplicate the task bar? I tried several programs a while back but couldn't find one I'm entirely happy with. Thx :)
Now I'm trying Actual Multiple Monitors which works fairly well.
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Maybe not be a lot of help for Win7, but Win 10 supports this directly. Right-click on the Task Bar, select Properties, and check "Show Task Bar on all displays"
Yep, since Windows 8 this comes by default, but not on Windows 7. Having two extra displays makes it almost a need.
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I have a docking station that is plugged through USB (USB 3.0 pro dock from Lenovo). I do have a couple of extra displays connected there. In order to have a taskbar in all the displays (windows 7) I have a small program that make a copy of the taskbar to appear in all the displays. I would like to load automatically at the beginning (boot) this program only if the docking station is connected (external keyboard, mouse, displays and network are the devices that are always connected there). Do you think this could be done without programming? As always thank you in advance! :thumbsup:
[www.tamautomation.com] | Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing. [YouTube channel]
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I have a docking station that is plugged through USB (USB 3.0 pro dock from Lenovo). I do have a couple of extra displays connected there. In order to have a taskbar in all the displays (windows 7) I have a small program that make a copy of the taskbar to appear in all the displays. I would like to load automatically at the beginning (boot) this program only if the docking station is connected (external keyboard, mouse, displays and network are the devices that are always connected there). Do you think this could be done without programming? As always thank you in advance! :thumbsup:
[www.tamautomation.com] | Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing. [YouTube channel]
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Try this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dualmonitortb/[^]
By now I'm happy with the software I'm testing, the only issue is that I don't want it to load automatically at boot because some times my laptop is not connected to the extra displays... But thank you.
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check out scheduled tasks. There are a LOT of options there for triggers - including system-level events - that you might be able to pull off what you want. click Start, type 'task schedule' and you're off.
Thank you, I will check it.
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