Having more than one monitor can certainly be handy. Running multiple monitors at once expands your desktop, in essence, giving you plenty more work space in which to perform your tasks and increasing your productivity. Windows XP allows you to set up and run up to 10 monitors at once – and if you need 10 monitors going at one time, then you are a busy person indeed and can use all the help you can get! Having more than one monitor configur

ed at once time allows you a crazy amount of flexibility. You can be working on Word documents on one monitor while keeping an eye on server activity on another. You can read the news on a third monitor, have the latest news reports from overseas streaming live on the 4th, and have a giant Excel spreadsheet stretched across the 5th and 6th monitors.

Or you can play 7 different video games at once. Whatever floats your boat.

Here is how to set up and configure multiple monitors at once.

1.)    Decide where all the monitors are going to actually live. One monitor will always be the primary monitor, where programs you launch are generally going to first appear, and where the logon boxes and Windows welcome screens are going to display when you first boot up the computer, so it is probably a good idea to have that monitor right in the middle. You can connect multiple monitors to individual video adapters of their own or to a single adapter with multiple outputs. Once you have everything arranged how you like it, you can move on to the next steps.
2.)    Go to Start, then choose Control Panel.
3.)    Click on Appearances and Themes.
4.)    Choose Display.
5.)    Find the Settings tab and then click on Identify, which will show you all of your monitors with large numbers assigned to each.
6.)    Click on the monitor icons and drag them into position to tell your system how you want to be able to move items from screen to screen.
7.)    Click OK or Apply and view your changes.

Drag the icons into position according to how you want to be able to move your stuff around. For example, if you want to be able to drag a window from the main monitor to the next one in line by dragging it left or right, put the icons side by side. If you want to do it by dragging things up or down, stack the icons in the appropriate order. This is purely up to your personal preferences. You can also select different resolutions and settings for each monitor, if you so choose. For example, a monitor that you plan to use for graphics work could have a higher resolution than a monitor that you just use for spreadsheets or other document work.