NVIDIA Corporation 21Chapter 3NVIDIA Control Panel AccessNote: When needed, you can still access the NVIDIA display control panel pagesthrough the Microsoft Display Properties Settings > Advanced option, asexplained in Figure 3.7, “NVIDIA Display Menu Showing the GPU Page—Multiple Displays Connected” on page 26.Desktop Access1 Right click on your Windows desktop to open the desktop menu.2 If you do not see the menu item “NVIDIA Display,” follow the procedure in“Adding NVIDIA Menu Options to the Windows Desktop Menu” on page 129and then continue to the next step.3 Click NVIDIA Display to see one or more of the descriptive EDID display namesas shown in the (Figure 3.2). The display names that appear are based on theFigure 3.2 NVIDIA Display Options on the Windows Desktop Menunumber and type of display(s) that are connected to your computer and whetheryou are in nView Dualview mode. These display names are also viewable from thenView Settings page (Figure 3.9).Note: For example, if you have multiple displays connected to an NVIDIA dual-display graphics card, in order to see both of your displays, you must be innView Dualview mode. In nView Clone or Span mode, you can only see onedisplay because Windows considers the displays as a “single” display inthese modes. For details, see “About Display Numbering” on page 38 and“About Renaming Displays” on page 38.4 Select the display for which you want to view the NVIDIA display control panel.During first use of the driver, the “default” page that opens is always the mainNVIDIA GPU (Figure 3.7). On subsequent use, the actual NVIDIA control panel pagethat opens will be the page that was open when you last closed the NVIDIA controlpanel.Shortcut to Playing Video Files on Any DisplayYou can now use the NVIDIA display selection shortcut feature to play video files onany selected display.1 As shown in Figure 3.3, right click on a video file to open its context menu.
