kirennia
Part of the furniture
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Couldn't think of any shorter title so apologies!
Tested this on vista; would appreciate it if anyone with two monitors could post if this works on XP/windows 7 or indeed, if it's actually needed on those OS'es.
The point is, if anyone here has had a similar problem to myself whereby, upon opening a video file on one monitor in fullscreen, clicking onto the other one will bring the video feed out of fullscreen mode. Highly annoying!
So I decided to do a couple of c++ system diagnostic checks, wont release it as it changes certain files and is now kind of pointless as I found another way to stop this from happening.
1)Open up your video file on one screen.
2)Press alt+ctrl+delete and open up the task manager on the other.
3)Maximise the video screen.
4)Click on the task manager. Click anywhere, it doesn't matter where, even if it's on the taskbar.
5)If the video remains fullscreen, tada, it's worked! If the video goes out of fullscreen, goto 3!
End of. The task manager acts to temporarily disable pulling anything out of fullscreen mode should you click elsewhere. For whatever reason, sometimes it works first time, sometimes after the third or fourth but generally it wont take more then that. It's a great thing to be able to do, watching videos while doing whateverelse on the other. Note that after clicking anything on the fullscreen video (i.e. pause, stop), this will reset so you'll have to do it again but it's hardly an ardeous task...
Hope this helps end a petty annoyance for others as it did for me...can't find any other feasible solutions on the net so I guess for the time being, this'll have to do..
Tested this on vista; would appreciate it if anyone with two monitors could post if this works on XP/windows 7 or indeed, if it's actually needed on those OS'es.
The point is, if anyone here has had a similar problem to myself whereby, upon opening a video file on one monitor in fullscreen, clicking onto the other one will bring the video feed out of fullscreen mode. Highly annoying!
So I decided to do a couple of c++ system diagnostic checks, wont release it as it changes certain files and is now kind of pointless as I found another way to stop this from happening.
1)Open up your video file on one screen.
2)Press alt+ctrl+delete and open up the task manager on the other.
3)Maximise the video screen.
4)Click on the task manager. Click anywhere, it doesn't matter where, even if it's on the taskbar.
5)If the video remains fullscreen, tada, it's worked! If the video goes out of fullscreen, goto 3!
End of. The task manager acts to temporarily disable pulling anything out of fullscreen mode should you click elsewhere. For whatever reason, sometimes it works first time, sometimes after the third or fourth but generally it wont take more then that. It's a great thing to be able to do, watching videos while doing whateverelse on the other.
Note that after clicking anything on the fullscreen video (i.e. pause, stop), this will reset so you'll have to do it again but it's hardly an ardeous task...Hope this helps end a petty annoyance for others as it did for me...can't find any other feasible solutions on the net so I guess for the time being, this'll have to do..
