Projector as a second monitor

[feeshta]

Hello all. I am about to buy a projector to use as my TV, and I would like to use the projector as a second monitor on my windows 7 PC. What I would like to be able to do is watch TV from my tunercard, or movies from DVD and Blueray drives etc, on the projector, but retain the ability to browse or whatever on the main screen.

I have been told that you cannot maximize the video in the second screen(projector) and still have access to the main screen with the mouse. Is this true? If so is there a workaround?

 

[welshmousepk]

You can, depending on the program. But the easy workaround is to run the video in windowed mode, but taking up the whole screen.

You'll have to get some info in the specific media program though. It may or may not block use of the mouse when maximized.

 

[feeshta]

windows media center is what I had planned on using. If there is a better alternative I guess I could easily change that though.