Wannabe

When working with dual monitors I’ll often watch online programs.  Normally when I have the progra fullscreen and then click anywhere else on the other monitor it will break the fullscreen mode.

UPDATE 11/19/10: The below no longer works  Though, luckily there’s a newer and much easier way to solve the problem!   Just download and run Ignoflash find “gcswf32.dll” and hit apply, easy peasy  At this time you can find the latest version of the ddl for chrome on Vista here:

C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\7.0.517.44\gcswf32.dll

Like before you may need to turn on “organize>folder search and options>view>show hidden files and folders” to find the file

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It can be really annoying so I took a look around the internet and found this:

http://my.opera.com/d.i.z./blog/2009/04/22/watch-fullscreen-flash-while-working-on-another-screen

All you need to do it place the NPSWF32.dll file here (for vista, and make sure to backup the original file!):

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\

For chrome you’ll also need to make some changes to file  as outlined here:

http://lifehacker.com/5560912/keep-flash-101-in-full-screen-on-a-second-monitor

Then copy the file here:

C:\Users\{your user name}\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\6.0.408.1\gcswf32.dll

and you may need to turn on “organize>folder search and options>view>show hidden files and folders”

And you’ll have fullscreen awesomeness no matter where you click