• Multiple monitors offer an expanded workspace.monitors image by Orlando Florin Rosu from Fotolia.com
  
  The addition of a second monitor to your desktop or laptop computer offers many advantages. A second monitor lets you separate your workspaces, expand your desktop and toolbar or use one monitor for gaming while leaving the other available for the Internet. There are several ways to make the use of a mouse with dual monitors easier and more efficient.
  
  

Slowing the Mouse

• One challenge to using two or more monitors is navigating between screens with your mouse. Often the speed of the mouse makes it difficult to select buttons, icons or scroll bars near the edge of the screen. There are several shareware programs available to slow the mouse cursor while navigating between screens, including Multi Monitor Mouse and Dual Display Mouse Manager (see Resources).
  
  

Dragging Between Screens

• With the addition of a second monitor, you instantly double your desktop and workspace and allow programs, browser windows and desktop icons to be transferred between screens. Simply click what you wish to move and drag it across the threshold of one screen onto the next, then release.
  
  

Hot keys

• Certain shareware programs enable keyboard hot keys in conjunction with the mouse for use with two monitors. Dual Display Mouse Manager allows you to lock the mouse to a single screen and hold the "Control" key when you wish to navigate to the other screen. This program also allows you to instantly move your mouse cursor to the other screen simply by pressing the "Control" key and the "~" key at the same time.