I now have dual monitors with different backgrounds (see below). I only used the Quadro download for the purposes of getting the desktop manager installed. Note I DID NOT install the Quadro driver for my GeForce. Expanding this and running the setup for nView Desktop Manager worked without any issues. I then expanded this using 7-Zip and sure enough the nview.cab was there. A little more research revealed that NVIDIA is no longer including this in the GeForce driver, but Quadro drivers only. When I did this though, there was no nview.cab. But there was a solution that stated to take the download of the driver, expand it using something like Winrar or 7-Zip, then expand the nview.cab file, then launch the install found once expanded. There are some folks out there that are quite upset that NVIDIA apparently decided to no longer include this in the install of drivers by default. I Googled for any solutions, and checked some forums that came up in the search. I installed the latest drivers for the GeForce 8 series, rebooted, and still no dice. Good time to update my drivers to see if the latest includes the nView Desktop Manager. But I guessed wrong, the option was not there for me in Control Panel. Nice! Thinking I have an NVIDIA GeForce in the home system, which is Windows 7, I should have this functionality there. I was able to set a different wallpaper for each monitor. Upon launch, there was a button to enable the advanced settings which I did. I just happened to stumble in Control Panel on my work laptop, which is Win XP, NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager. I have a dual monitor setup at my desk at work (with my laptop – which is then linked via Input Director to my single monitor desktop).
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