Allow selection of specific Displays instead of "Use All Displays"

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As a professional user, I often use 3 (or more) displays. It would be extremely helpful if I could have Windows in Full Screen Mode, only use selected specific displays, rather than "all". There are times when I need to keep a window showing Mac desktop and want (need) to reduce the video overhead in Windows. I have tried going in to Windows display manager and telling it not to use a display but find that the setting is largely ignored or results in a very unstable display. I think it would be far better if Windows didn't even know about the display the extra display by having Parallels hide it...
 
I've been using PD for some time now and I was wondering if it would be a possibility, like USB devices to select which monitors to use in full screen? My configuration now uses my MacBook Pro opened and I would like my Windows 10 VM to just use 2 Apple Cinema displays in "full screen".

What do you guys think? Could this be useful to you?
 
MariaH5 said:
Hi
I have same question As a user, I often use 3 (or more) displays. It would be extremely helpful if I could have Windows in Full Screen Mode, only use selected specific displays, rather than "all". There are times when I need to keep a window showing Mac desktop and want (need) to reduce the video overhead in Windows. I have tried going in to Windows display manager and telling it not to use a display but find that the setting is largely ignored or results in a very unstable display. I think it would be far better if Windows didn't even know about the display the extra display by having Parallels hide it. Please help me, if you know any proper solution of this questions.
Thanks!
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Hi @MariaH5, I was looking into it and it looks like they were able to get it to work with the MultiMonitor tool. Here's there post. I believe you can find the tool here: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/multi_monitor_tool.html

I personally haven't used this tool, but it seems quite promising so YMMV. I don't have this 3rd monitor configuration at the moment, but that may actually change now that I know about the MultiMonitor Tool.
 
I have 3/4 displays, mbp, hp 27" 4k, iPad sidecar or an old small monitor which I use the for monitoring tasks / trello / email etc.
Main screens for parallels, but I often have to disconnect the sidecar or small screen as MBP starts to freeze or I end up getting resource / RAM errors when testing. I prefer coherence only because I seem to have less issues, but I would rather use full screen with just selected monitors.
 
I have (6) 4K monitors (23' Mac Studio M2 Ultra 128GB 2TB SSD) and I do development/cyber work that hosts many VMs simultaneously to support different DevSecOps pipelines. I often develop in different VMs for different reasons and perform cybersecurity assessments on different OS'. I would love to be able to have a different VM in each screen with a main working VM spanned across 2 or 4 screens. I pay enough for a Parallels license every year to not have to download a 3rd party app to support this. Lets make this happen!
 
I agree, having the option to select specific displays for Full Screen Mode in Parallels would greatly improve usability and reduce resource strain. It's a much-needed feature for multi-display setups.
 
Upvote for this. I have 4 displays and I would very much like to (sometimes) use 2 of them for Windows full screen. I never want to use all of them for Windows.
In theory Coherence should kind of solve the problem of needing more than one display for Windows, except it is so flaky and troublesome that it is not worth it.
 
Further to the above: Use All Windows in Full Screen _should_ make this possible except that when you switch one space, Parallels forces ALL of them to switch, so you cannot use both Mac and Windows simultaneously.
 
To only use selected displays in Windows Full Screen Mode on Parallels, configure Parallels to hide the extra displays from Windows to reduce video overhead and improve stability.Also visit best go karts for go karts review and Fesco online bill for fesco bills
 
That is the problem. There is no way in Parallels (that I can find) to hide the extra displays from Windows.. Windows can theoretically disable selected displays, but it only works for the first display and then gets horribly confused, so that method is not usable.
 
Having more control over specific display selection would make the workflow much easier, especially when switching between different apps or tools.
In my case, I mostly work with lightweight utility pages and simple browser-based tools. For example, when users need to check bill, I usually open quick-access pages like. The issue I face is that when multiple displays are active, some windows open on the wrong monitor, so a feature that allows selecting only one display would really help maintain focus and avoid unnecessary switching.
Hope the dev team considers adding this -- it would improve usability for many of us who multitask on different screens.
 
RowanD1 said:
That is the problem. There is no way in Parallels (that I can find) to hide the extra displays from Windows.. Windows can theoretically disable selected displays, but it only works for the first display and then gets horribly confused, so that method is not usable.
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Well:)
 
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