Lost In Tangent

I’ve been aware of UltraMon for a few years but for some reason never took the time to see whether it was worth the hype. I was reading this month’s MSDN magazine and noticed it listed in the toolbox article and finally decided to give it a shot. Now I’m staring myself down in the mirror wondering how in the world I was able to exist on this planet without it.

The fact that UltraMon splits your Windows taskbar across all monitors is just one of the many beautiful features. When you install UltraMon, by default it will place two new buttons in the title bar of every application window: one for toggling to the next monitor, and one for maximizing it across all monitors. Even better than that is the ability to create hotkeys for those functions. So now if I’m coding in Visual Studio on the main monitor directly in front of me and someone comes into my office and wants to see something I can just press the 2 key (this is configurable) and VS will immediately switch to the next monitor. Then if I want to display something large across all monitors I can just hit the 3 key (also configurable) and the window not spreads across all monitors. Perfect!

All-in-all UltraMon is truly sweet. My name is Jonathan Carter and I approve this software.