Tony,

Do you have a keyboard shortcut for switching between monitors? I have two monitors at work where I can drag things inbetween them. Is there a shortcut key so I don’t have to use my mouse?

Thanks!

Have you tried Ultramon? It includes keyboard shortcuts for moving windows between monitors. It can even add buttons to the title bar (as shown above) to move windows between monitors. It also adds a taskbar to each monitor, which makes it easy to keep track of where every window is.

BTW, I’m not being paid to endorse Ultramon–I just like it.

It does other things that I don’t use, like manage multiple-monitor screensavers (good for photo slideshows) and stretching a wallpaper across multiple monitors.

Note that Laura responded to me, and it sounds like I misunderstood her situation:

Hi Tony,

It was so good of you to respond.  No, I guess what I meant was when I move from doing something on one screen to another, I have to use the mouse to click on the monitor I need to use.  Then when I go back to the other task, I have to click on the first monitor with the mouse.  If I could CTRL+ “something” or ALT or some shortcut that lets me pivot back and forth, that would be awesome.  I can’t really install anything to the hospital computer.

You’re so kind, thank you!

And my updated recommendation:

Hi, Laura. Maybe pressing Alt+Tab will work for you? That let’s you switch between active applications. I’m not sure about your setup, but if you have one window open on each monitor and you haven’t used any other apps, pressing Alt+Tab will switch between the windows (and thus the monitors).

Please do let me know if that helps!

1. Click the picture you want as your wallpaper so that the larger picture opens in your browser.

2. Right-click the picture, and then click Set as Background.

3. Click Yes when prompted.

I scaled these pictures way down to make them easier to download–my camera (a Canon 5D) takes huge pictures.