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2013-08-17
the corsair carbide air 540 high airflow cube case is great for air cooling or liquid cooling check the link in the video description to learn more by popular demand welcome to our video on display fusion if you're wondering how to acquire display fusion I would highly recommend getting it through steam where it is $29.99 although it goes on still quite often I believe I got mine at around $7.99 and that was a pretty good deal that's why I don't necessarily remember it's not too big deal to me the main reason why I like display fusion is you can have different independent backgrounds on each monitor I personally run three different screens usually so it's nice to be able to have independent backgrounds because I just find it more interesting you know so stretch backgrounds or you can have the same back on in each one it doesn't really matter it's quite flexible in that way my other favorite thing is that you can have task bars on every monitors so you have your windows taskbar and then you have on all your other monitors you can have Display fusion task bars where you can pin whatever you want and they still have Aero peak functionality another great thing about these is if you're on your display fusion taskbar and you right-click on a window you have additional functionality so you can click on span across all monitors or you can click on move monitor to move window to next monitor so you can just flip things around as you go and it makes everything a much more enjoyable much faster experience another thing you can do can do is have multiple screen savers on each one of your screens which I'm really not into but if you want to do that you can now if you're into tinkering with software and want to get a little bit more functionality out of it you can go to the functions tab inside of the display fusion settings window and set any key combination to a huge arrangement of different functions that you can do my favorite one is move window to center of monitors so that's control windows key q and it just pops whatever window you're currently on into the middle of your monitor there's a huge amount of other ones and you can set those to clickable buttons in the top left hand corner of the window so right here I can just have that which is move window to next display so you saw that through over to the TV very very quickly and if I double middle if I middle click the title bar it will also move it to next monitor that is default functionality though and not a key combination so it's just nice little extra things that are built into it so here's something I really didn't find that useful but you might if you grab the title bar of a window and move it to the next one it you can if it's maximized it will remac summize on the other side but the reason why I don't find it all that crazy useful is I can do that anyways and just put it on the top of the monitor and then it maximizes anyway so it's kind of already built in but it might be a little bit faster for you this way if you're very nitpicky about over organizing your windows you can enable a tooltip that will show you the size and location of your windows at all points in time while you drag them around which is very nice another thing you can do is specify default window locations for when your computer starts up so something I have done is I set Skype I have two skypes at all points in time so I set up Skype so that when I first turned my computer on on my left monitor not my main monitor I have one Skype on one side and my other Skype on the other side so I can constantly monitor all my chats another tool to help you manage your Windows location is snapping so you can set in the snapping option inside of the display fusion settings window you can stat snapping distance I have it set at 10 which seems very natural for me and then if you move windows around they'll snap against each other which is kind of nice because it helps you organize things actually use this all the time not everything will work with snapping properly like my Razer comms window which is a very custom UI stylized window will not snap properly to other windows but default windows windows and steam will all kind of snap to each other which is quite nice this isn't necessarily useful to me but if you're a laptop power user that has a dock it's a work you can have monitor profiles and icon profiles so when you plug in the new monitor sometimes the resolutions messed up or it's on or it thinks it's on the wrong side and your icons go all over the place you can have two individual profiles they can link into each other so if you set a monitor profile they can automatically grab your icon profile so you go to work click on the work profile and everything automatically configures itself exactly how you want it to be so you're playing a game and your icons are all messed out because of some weird resolution that you had to play inside the game if all your icons are messed up just click on your profile everything will be fine you might notice a lot of these features are mainly good for people at ease in Windows 7 display fusion also has features for people using Windows 8 one of them is a bypass to go right to your desktop although they suggest using classic start which also has that functionality so that's a little bit redundant to that point but the coolest thing in their Windows 8 features that I have noticed is they have a mini modern UI window so if you do end up going if you in classic start you can enable so you can still get to modern UI if you do want that but don't want it to completely take over your screen you can have a mini little modern UI at almost any size that you want it's very customizable and then you can use it there it still looks kind of nice but personally I wouldn't use that at all just completely bypass modern UI because I don't like it the power user menu in Windows 8 kind of opens in one specific spot you can teleport it to your mouse cursor by pressing Windows X and then that's about it for Windows 8 users but it's still quite nice for many things displayed Fusion integrates really really well with Windows if you right-click on your desktop you can access desktop wallpaper monitor configuration or just general settings but if you're a power user like I'm assuming many of you are you can dive deeper into all the different menus and get a lot more out of this program I've covered many things throughout this video but there's still tons that I haven't been able to go through and if you're going to sit down and spend the time to set up everything exactly how you want it it'll take some time but it'll save you time in the long run if you're worried about backing up all your stuff they have that functionality you can backup your settings to a reg file and then restore them if you have a reformat your computer or move to a different desktop with sim with a similar setup thank you for watching our display fusion now average normal with this cuz that was good otherwise you're watching artists play fusion video and I'm going to leave before Linus shoots me no you got it right and I don't have to like yeah yeah seriously okay bye
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