I have a Spyder2express, which btw works fine on both my vista 64 desktop and my vista 32 laptop.

But on the main desktop system I have two 20 inch LCD's, and there's no dual monitor support on this edition of the Spyder. In the old XP days I was able to trick it by calibrating each monitor as the only one, and with both later connected it would then load both profiles. This no longer works in Vista, so I'm left with only the main monitor calibrated.

I'll just get the Spyder3PRO or something if I have to, but I was wondering if there exists some downloadable software (with dual-monitor support) that will work with the puck I already have?

The OS is Vista Business 64, and the video card is an nVidia 8500 with one DVI and one VGA output.

I have Spyder2Suite which also lacks dual monitor support, but I calibrate each
of my monitors separately using personalize/display settings to set each monitor
as the only one under Vista 32 Ultimate, and it works fine when I set them both
back as active.
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Charlie...
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Freeagent,

As Charlie said, Vista handles 2 monitor profiles easily. You only need to remove any gamma loaders from the Vista Startup folder, if any exist there. Then, establish your profile associations for each monitor via the Color Management dialog of Display Settings > Advanced Settings. Perhaps you've missed the fact that within that dialog you can independently set a default profile for each monitor, by simply changing the current monitor indicated in the Device field?

You can verify you have two profiles loaded by using the handy DisplayProfile utility that is available from Xrite, dragging the tool between your two displays and watching how it shows the active profile for the display upon which it resides. <http://www.xrite.com/product_overview.aspx?ID=757&Action=Support&Softwa reID=539>

Regards,

Daryl

I tried it again as Charlie described, and this time it actually worked. I've tried that before, and what happened then was that a profile would be loaded into each monitor, but one or the other would be consistently "broken" with the characteristic straw-yellow overlay. But that was a few video cards ago, and maybe the sequence matters. I now did the second monitor first; then the main.

Anyway, it's good to have it working, so thanks both of you, and Daryl for the link. I'll try that out. :)