Bill you can have a "split screen", just by resizing the screens of the programs you wish to view. You can place them side by side or one on top of the other or even divide the screen in quarters if you have four you wish to use. Some programs will let you open two databases in separate screens and you can switch from one screen to the other to make them active. It is just a case of experimenting. And much cheaper than having two monitors :-). -----Original Message----- From: bhoudek [mailto:bhoudek@swbell.net] Sent: Thursday, 12 August 2004 01:29 To: GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Gen-Comp-Tips] Dual Monitors revisited Thanks, folks for the comments. Was hoping an alternative might be to do split-screen with two separate programs at the same time. Recall some 20+ years ago seeing a demonstration of split screen usage. Not at that time knowing how to turn a computer on, it looked great but had no clue as to how to run it. I just recently discovered how to produce an e-mail using only 1/2 screen superimposed over, say, Legacy and that works great. Am running Win xp home & 312 ram with Pentium 111. Any thoughts here save forking over bunches of cash? Thanks again, Bill Houdek --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0433-2, 2004-08-10 Tested on: 12/08/2004 2:11:16 PM avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com