Matrox DualHead2Go Digital SE Review

Having such a huge desktop can make the mouse difficult to find sometimes.  The PowerDesk software lets you set a keyboard shortcut to locate your mouse.  We set up a shortcut of “Ctrl + W”, and when pressed then the entire desktop changed to blue, except for a small circle which locates the mouse pointer.  This makes it rather obvious where your mouse is, and is much better than the default that Windows includes.  You can also set up a macro that swaps the active window to the next cell, which can be helpful when arranging “maximized” applications on your screen.

Finding your mouse cursor is much easier with a keyboard shortcut

You can also set which monitor the “Windows Welcome” screen should appear on, but most people will leave this at default, which is the primary display.

Setting Primary display

Windows will only show the taskbar on the “primary” display, but you can easily change this to your new extended monitor in the Multi-Display Setup.  If you set the “regular” monitor as the default, then your taskbar will only appear on one screen, and this also sets the default for wallpaper.  Wallpaper on your extended display will have black borders around it and look rather hideous.

Taskbar is extended when external monitor is set to primary, and wallpaper behaves

The alternative is to make your extended display the default, which not only spans the taskbar across both monitors but allows your wallpaper to extend both displays without any issues.  In this mode you could set a wide-screen photo and it would appear properly on your external displays but appear squished on your laptop.  The software was also intelligent enough to know orientation of our setup, so our mouse cursor didn’t “hit a wall” requiring shuffling monitors around as can happen with traditional multi-mon setups.  You will notice that your clock and any taskbar widgets appear on the right of the secondary monitor, which could be annoying to some users.

There is also an Administrator Options mode which lets you set options for any users of this computer.  Honestly I can’t imagine the scenario when someone would want to hinder the “snapping” or keyboard shortcut features of this product, but it can be done.