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Hello there. I've made a small guide for newbies: "How to make Tablet work as additional PC screen". That work for Windows 2000/XP and maybe Vista. It's real side display, not some field of your desktop. So here it is:

Required PC-Side software:

- RealVNC ( http://www.realvnc.com/ )
- Windows virtual display driver from the ZoneScreen app (http://www.zoneos.com/zonescreen.htm )

Required Tablet-side software:
- VNC Viewer (it's right in the extras, install it thru App Manager)

What should I do?:
- Download ZoneScreen ( For XP: http://www.zoneos.com/downloads/zone...wxp_x86_en.zip, For Vista:http://www.zoneos.com/downloads/zone...wlh_x86_en.zip, For 2K: http://www.zoneos.com/downloads/zone...86_en_1090.zip), unpack it.

- Open up control panel - New Hardware installation - next - Yes, new hardware is connected - last row in the list (add new device) - Manual hardware installation, selected from the list - Show all hardware - Install from the disk - chose the folder with unpacked ZoneScreen - select file zonescreen.inf.

- Go to the Desktop Properties - Settings tab - you should see a small third display appeared in monitor sceme - select it and set the flag "expand desktop to this display" - apply.

- Open up the folder with unpacked ZoneScreen - run zserver.exe - hit Next - in the second combo-box select your virtual display (NOT \\. \DISPLAY1) - in the third combobox search for "800x480x16@42" row - hit Next - Select from the top menu "File - Save configuration to run at startup" (that's because XP resets secondary display settings after restart)
If that app really helped you and saved you 300 bucks that you wanted to spend on usb-display - please donate some of them to the author, cause his job is really unique.


- setup Real VNC.
- run it - doubleclick on tray icon - select Authentication tab - set "VNC password authentication" and hit "Configure" - enter any password - save - close.


- Setup VNC Viewer on your tablet.

- Run it - hit the first button - enter your PC's IP - enter password - now you can see your desktop - scroll upper-right utill you'll see the field without any applications and windows - this is our virtual display, say "Hello" to it.

-click on the VNC Viewer title - hit "view" - uncheck "show scrollbars" - hit "show toolbar" - uncheck "fullscreen".

- press fullscreen button


Our wireless (or maybe wired) second display is ready. Serve it with beer and nuts
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Last edited by wazd; 2008-12-27 at 23:47.
 

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