Basic question(s) about Matrox Powerdesk

I gave my brother my old Windows 98 PC. It has a Matrox Millenium
video card and the Matrox Powerdesk software. Somehow (he is
definitely not computer literate) he has done something with the
Powerdesk settings that make me think he has turned on the multiple
desktop feature, but since I never dabbled with that feature, I don't
know how to undo what he did.

The first thing I noticed was that there are now 2 Matrox icons in the
system tray. One (the "normal" one I believe) is the Matrox Quickdesk
icon, which when right clicked, brings up several options such as
Matrox Display Settings. The other icon is similar to the first, but
it has a red image superimposed on the image of the monitor. When the
mouse pointer is held over this icon, it shows the current screen
resolution. When I right click on it, it displays a list of 4
identical "boxes", each with a list of several screen resolutions. Of
these 4, only 1 has any of the selections checked. But I am guessing
that each of these boxes corresponds to 1 of 4 desktops.

Am I correct, and if so, how do we turn off the multiple desktops? I
have been through all of the Matrox Display Settings and Properties
that I could find, but found nothing that I could identify as being
related to multiple desktops.

The main effect of this is that the PC is VERY slow, which I assume is
due to the multiple desktops overtasking the 4MB of video mamory. Any
help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Tom,

I don't know the answer to you question, but if this change was
made I the last four days, restoring the registry may fix it.

To restore a backup copy of the registry using ScanReg
1. Start your computer, press and hold CTRL, (or by tapping F8) select
Command Prompt Only
2. At the MS-DOS prompt, type scanreg /restore.
3. Select the previous registry you want to restore, and then press ENTER.
4. When you receive notification that you restored a properly working
registry,
press ENTER to restart your computer.

For more information on Scanreg check this article:
Description of the Windows Registry Checker Tool (Scanreg.exe)
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../Q183/8/87.asp

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"Tom Gordon" wrote
I gave my brother my old Windows 98 PC. It has a Matrox Millenium
video card and the Matrox Powerdesk software. Somehow (he is
definitely not computer literate) he has done something with the
Powerdesk settings that make me think he has turned on the multiple
desktop feature, but since I never dabbled with that feature, I don't
know how to undo what he did.

The first thing I noticed was that there are now 2 Matrox icons in the
system tray. One (the "normal" one I believe) is the Matrox Quickdesk
icon, which when right clicked, brings up several options such as
Matrox Display Settings. The other icon is similar to the first, but
it has a red image superimposed on the image of the monitor. When the
mouse pointer is held over this icon, it shows the current screen
resolution. When I right click on it, it displays a list of 4
identical "boxes", each with a list of several screen resolutions. Of
these 4, only 1 has any of the selections checked. But I am guessing
that each of these boxes corresponds to 1 of 4 desktops.

Am I correct, and if so, how do we turn off the multiple desktops? I
have been through all of the Matrox Display Settings and Properties
that I could find, but found nothing that I could identify as being
related to multiple desktops.

The main effect of this is that the PC is VERY slow, which I assume is
due to the multiple desktops overtasking the 4MB of video mamory. Any
help would be greatly appreciated!

Have you checked the help files? If you think you checked everything possible, see
if you can get help he
http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewforu...e1d504f bec1d

--
Brian A.

Jack of all trades, Master of none.
One can never truly be a master as there is always more to learn.


"Tom Gordon" wrote in message
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I gave my brother my old Windows 98 PC. It has a Matrox Millenium
video card and the Matrox Powerdesk software. Somehow (he is
definitely not computer literate) he has done something with the
Powerdesk settings that make me think he has turned on the multiple
desktop feature, but since I never dabbled with that feature, I don't
know how to undo what he did.

The first thing I noticed was that there are now 2 Matrox icons in the
system tray. One (the "normal" one I believe) is the Matrox Quickdesk
icon, which when right clicked, brings up several options such as
Matrox Display Settings. The other icon is similar to the first, but
it has a red image superimposed on the image of the monitor. When the
mouse pointer is held over this icon, it shows the current screen
resolution. When I right click on it, it displays a list of 4
identical "boxes", each with a list of several screen resolutions. Of
these 4, only 1 has any of the selections checked. But I am guessing
that each of these boxes corresponds to 1 of 4 desktops.

Am I correct, and if so, how do we turn off the multiple desktops? I
have been through all of the Matrox Display Settings and Properties
that I could find, but found nothing that I could identify as being
related to multiple desktops.

The main effect of this is that the PC is VERY slow, which I assume is
due to the multiple desktops overtasking the 4MB of video mamory. Any
help would be greatly appreciated!

Tom,

I really don't have the inclination to play with Matrox Powerdesk at
the moment, but I can if it is essential. I have never touched the
multiple monitors either.

What about disabling all the software, rebooting and see what happens?
(You can always enable them again).
Disable in Msconfig. (Start-Run-MSCONFIG-Startup tab)

My computer with MM on it runs quite well (and has for years) without
these enabled:
Matrox Color Control
Matrox Control Cemter
Matrox Diagnostic
Matrox QuickDesk


....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

In microsoft.public.win98.display.general, (Tom
Gordon) wrote:

I gave my brother my old Windows 98 PC. It has a Matrox Millenium
video card and the Matrox Powerdesk software. Somehow (he is
definitely not computer literate) he has done something with the
Powerdesk settings that make me think he has turned on the multiple
desktop feature, but since I never dabbled with that feature, I don't
know how to undo what he did.

The first thing I noticed was that there are now 2 Matrox icons in the
system tray. One (the "normal" one I believe) is the Matrox Quickdesk
icon, which when right clicked, brings up several options such as
Matrox Display Settings. The other icon is similar to the first, but
it has a red image superimposed on the image of the monitor. When the
mouse pointer is held over this icon, it shows the current screen
resolution. When I right click on it, it displays a list of 4
identical "boxes", each with a list of several screen resolutions. Of
these 4, only 1 has any of the selections checked. But I am guessing
that each of these boxes corresponds to 1 of 4 desktops.

Am I correct, and if so, how do we turn off the multiple desktops? I
have been through all of the Matrox Display Settings and Properties
that I could find, but found nothing that I could identify as being
related to multiple desktops.

The main effect of this is that the PC is VERY slow, which I assume is
due to the multiple desktops overtasking the 4MB of video mamory. Any
help would be greatly appreciated!