Using two monitors with Hoster Light

[william burditt]

Roy, thanks for your help. I will get back with you as soon as my son and I get it hooked up next week. I have a desktop computer and the party will be at my house. It is my 80th birthday celebration, and this will probably be my one and only event where I will be the karaoke jockey. I live on an acreage so we have plenty of room to have it outside. It looks like there will be 40 people attending. I have access to two 1000 amp speakers and three microphones. I am renting a mixer from a local music company, and they will furnish the cables necessary to hook up the speakers and the computer to the mixer. The karaoke party is to take place at 7:P.M. on the 21st of August, and I hope to have everything checked out by then. I am sure I will have some more questions as I go along.

Bill

[Roy Dennis]

Bill, I thought I was the oldest swinger in town at 68. Hope your party goes well, will keep an eye out for any queries you have in the mean time.
In what part of the world are you ?

You never now, this party might be your springboard to becoming a local DJ.

Roy.

[billyo]

the way to extend your singers screen is to :

1. click on your control panel or properties on any space on your screen
2. click on display
3. click on setting, you should see two boxes 1 and 2
4. click on 2 and click on extend, click ok..you might have to restart your
comp.
5. open hoster, drag the top right screen to the ext. tv which is your
singers screen. double click it to enlarge or put you pointer on all
corners and drag the edge to fit the screen ( singers tv )

6. this is an option if you want:
you can drag the left top screen to anywhere you want on your
computer screen and put your pointer on any corner to enlarge
it to your liking...( do not click or play anything while doing this, you
wont be able to drag or enlarge your screen ( viewer screen ).

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by billyo

the way to extend your singers screen is to :

1. click on your control panel or properties on any space on your screen
2. click on display

billyo, On windows 7 the right click on blank screen shows a different duologue window to XP or Vista, you don't see the properties option, what you see is as in this attachment, if you choose screen resolution it takes you to the page that is in my previous attachment where you see the extended screen.
At least this is how it works on my Windows 7 system.

Roy.

[billyo]

i'm sorry i thought it was xp..my bad..

[Skybird74]

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

billyo, On windows 7 the right click on blank screen shows a different duologue window to XP or Vista, you don't see the properties option, what you see is as in this attachment, if you choose screen resolution it takes you to the page that is in my previous attachment where you see the extended screen.
At least this is how it works on my Windows 7 system.

Roy.

Roy, I'm just curious........ will clicking on "Personalize" take you to the same "Display" options in Win7 ? Even though the Menu looks different, on Vista you can choose "Personalize".

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by Skybird74

Roy, I'm just curious........ will clicking on "Personalize" take you to the same "Display" options in Win7 ? Even though the Menu looks different, on Vista you can choose "Personalize".

Yes but in around about way, Personalize/Display/Change display settings.
3 different clicks, only 1 my way, screen resolution brings up the screen as shown in my #4 post attachment. On this screen you can adjust resolution, select 2nd monitor and adjust thats screen resolution and whether you view duplicate or different views on each monitor.

It's just less clicks to arrive at the same screen.


Roy

[william burditt]

Roy, I said that I had access to two 1000 amp speakers. That should have 1000 watts! I live in Lakeland, TN, a suburb of Memphis, home of Graceland and Elvis! By the way, I grew up on the farm, and I begin singing when a very young lad, singing to cows as I milked them. Singing was supposed to be soothing to the cows, according to the stories of the cowboys on the cattle drives in the old days. I was born in 1930 during the Great Depression. One song I remember singing as a very young boy in this period, don't remember the name of the song, but it went like this (all I can remember).
"May I sleep in your barn tonight mister
it is cold lying out on the ground
and the cold north wind is blowing
and I have no place to lie down"

Bill