Lists all currently available profiles.

A profile contains a record of all nView Desktop Manager display settings for easy software setup. You can load a profile after selecting it from the list.

Using nView Desktop Manager, an Administrator can save a record of all of its display settings in a profile and continue to add new profiles that are specific to a company, workgroup, or user. An Administrator can create, save, or delete profiles.

Note: nView Desktop Manager includes several generic profiles for different industries.


Click to load a selected profile into nView Desktop Manager. Once you load a profile, all current Desktop Manager settings are replaced with those of the profile that is loaded.


Click to run the NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager Setup Wizard.

The Wizard helps set up the most commonly used nView Desktop Manager display settings, including window management, desktop management and "transparency" effects. Using this Wizard, you can enable or disable the automatic startup of nView Desktop Manager when loading Windows.


OBSOLETE; needs to be removed. Allows you to load or unload the nView Desktop Manager.

Note: If  Desktop Manager is not configured to automatically start when you load Windows, click this option to temporarily enable nView Desktop Manager until you log off and log on again.


Click to create and add a new profile that contains all of the current nView Desktop Manager settings. Once saved, you can reload this profile at any time.


Click to save current nView Desktop Manager settings to the selected profile. Once saved, you can reload this profile at any time.


Click to delete the selected profile.


Allows windows to span (appear across) displays.

If this option is disabled, windows will not span displays.


Allows child windows within an application to span (appear across) displays.

If this option is not checked, child windows will not span displays, even if the parent window does.

Note: To access this option, you must first enable the "Enable window spanning across displays" option.


Adds the nView Desktop Manager window maximize button to title bars on all application windows.

Use this title bar button to toggle between maximized and restored states in multiple-display configurations.


OBSOLETE; needs to be removed. This title bar button allows you to toggle between maximized and restored states in multiple-display configurations.


OBSOLETE; needs to be removed. Enables the "application position memory" feature.

For application memory to work, you must enable application memory for each application through its nView Desktop Manager system menu extension.

1.	To access the nView Desktop Manager system menu extension from an application, you need to first activate the "Extend application system menus with nView options" option on this panel.

2.	To access the system menu, right click the application window’s title bar and click Position Memory to enable the option.

When you enable this application position memory feature, nView Desktop Manager stores information about the application’s location, size, and state, including the desktop on which it was located. When you close and restart the application, nView Desktop Manager restores these application settings from last use.


This option lets you specify the location of dialog boxes.

•	Show dialog boxes on monitor n  (where n is the number) repositions dialog boxes to a specific monitor.

•	Show dialog boxes at cursor repositions dialog boxes to the monitor where the cursor is located.

•	Show dialog boxes on application’s monitor repositions dialog boxes on the parent application’s monitor.


Displays dialog boxes on the specified display.


Repositions dialog boxes to the display where the cursor is located.


Displays dialog boxes on the parent application’s display.


Click the arrows to select the display on  which you want dialog boxes to appear.


Adds the nView Options . . .option to applications’ system menus.

1.	To access the system menu, right click the title bar of an application window

2.	Then click nView Options . . . to access application-specific nView Desktop Manager features


Accelerates the Open, Maximize, and Restore window functions.


Enables window transparency when windows are dragged. Windows become transparent as you hold down the mouse button while on the window’s title bar, so you can quickly see what is underneath the window. When you release the mouse button, the window becomes opaque.


Sets the degree of transparency for a window that is being moved. The higher the percentage you select, the more transparent the window appears while being moved.


Use the mouse wheel to change Zoom Levels when a Zoom window is active.


Use the mouse wheel to change Zoom Levels in a Zoom window when you hold down the Shift key.

Note: If the "Ctrl" option is also checked, you have to hold down both the Ctrl and Shift keys in order to use the mouse wheel to change Zoom  Levels.


Use the mouse wheel to change Zoom Levels in a Zoom window by holding down the Ctrl key.

Note: If the "Shift" option is also checked, you have to hold down both the Ctrl and Shift keys to use the mouse wheel to change Zoom Levels.


Creates a Magnifying Glass style Zoom window when a Zoom window is launched. The Magnifying Glass Zoom window contains a white square in the center of the window.

•	Adjusting the Zoom Level increases or decreases the size of the white square.

•	Drag the Zoom window over the area on the screen that you want to magnify so that the transparent white square encompasses the area to magnify and then release the mouse button. The section of the screen inside the transparent white square now becomes magnified to fill the entire Zoom window.


Creates a Zoom window that displays a magnification of the area around the mouse cursor when a Zoom window is launched.


Click to toggle on or off a window that displays a magnification of a selected area of your screen.


Lists actions that can be performed when you press a key or combination of keys.


After you click inside this text box, the keys you press on your keyboard appear in the text box.

1.	Select the key or combination of keys you want to use to perform the selected action that appears in the Action text box.

2.	Then click OK.


Click to add the selected hot key action and keystroke combination to the Active Hot Keys list. Once a hot key is added, it is active and available for use.


Click to remove the selected hot key from the Active Hot Keys list. Once a hot key is removed, it is no longer active or available for use.


Click to remove all hot keys from the Active Hot Keys list. Once the hot keys are removed, they are no longer active or available for use.


Lists the hot keys that have been assigned and are currently active.


Lists all currently available desktops.

After selecting a desktop from this list, you can activate, rename, remove, or switch between desktops.

•	To add a new desktop to the list, click the Add button.

•	To switch to a desktop, double-click that desktop from the list.


Click to add a new desktop.

1.	Enter a desktop name in the Desktop Name field, when prompted.

2.	Click Apply and OK. The desktop is created and appears in the list of desktops.


 #OBSOLETE; needs to be removed. Switches to the selected desktop. You can perform the same function by double-clicking a desktop from the list of desktops.


Click to rename the selected desktop. Edit the name in the Desktop Name field and click OK.


Click to delete a desktop.

Note: Once you delete a desktop, it is removed from the list of desktops. The applications in the deleted desktop now move to the Default desktop.


Obsolete: to be removed. Changes the background of the selected desktop.

When you click this option, nView Desktop Manager switches to the selected desktop and opens the Windows Display Properties background tab from which you can change the background of the selected desktop. Each desktop can have a different background.


Adds an icon to the Windows taskbar that lets you open these nView Desktop Manager control panels, switch desktops, and change common display settings.


Lets you view desktops in the Windows Explorer folder tree. Using the Windows Explorer folder tree view, you can

•	Rename, delete, or add desktops.

•	Switch between desktops and drag applications from one desktop to another


Opens a small toolbar that allows you to quickly switch between desktops. You must enable the "Show desktops in the Explorer window folder tree" option to use this toolbar.


Enter a unique name for the new profile you are creating.


Enter a unique name for the new desktop you are creating.


Displays a list of the desktops or displays (monitors) that are currently available for use with your selected hot key.


Enter the application you want to run and its location. You can click Browse to search for the application.


When this option is checked, your system switches to the selected profile when you dock the system.

When the option is unchecked, no profile change takes place. For example, if you have selected My Docked Profile and the Docked Profile option is checked, the system will change to your custom docked profile when it is docked.


When this option is checked, your system switches to the selected profile when the system is undocked.

When the option is unchecked, no profile change  takes place. For example, if you  selected My Undocked Profile and the Undocked Profile option is checked, the system will change to your custom undocked profile when it is undocked.


When this option is checked, your system switches to the selected profile when the system enters Write mode.

When the option is unchecked, no profile change takes place. For example, if you have selected My Write Profile and the Write Profile option is checked, the system will change to your custom write profile when you switch to Write mode.


Select Default profile to use factory default settings. Select Custom profile to use your personal settings.

Note: You must create a custom docked profile before you can use custom settings when docked.


Select Default profile to use factory default settings.

Select Custom profile to use your personal settings.

Note: You must create a custom undocked profile before you can use custom settings when undocked.


Select Default profile to use factory default settings.

Select Custom profile to use your personal settings.

Note: You must create a custom write profile before you can use custom settings when in Write mode.


Click this option to create a custom profile.

1.	Arrange your display settings, power settings, and applications the way you want them to appear whenever you enter this profile.

2.	When you have completed the settings, click the option again to save your custom profile.


Loads or unloads nView Desktop Manager desktop management. Also controls if nView Desktop Manager automatically starts at boot or not.


Shows or hides advanced nView Desktop Manager settings (in the form of additional tabs) for multiple desktops, application management, and  user interface features.


Click to access the Windows Display Properties Settings panel where you can turn on or off (attach or detach) your connected displays.


Controls whether display mode information (resolution, display arrangement, etc) is saved to and/or restored from profiles.


Controls whether the taskbar is limited to a single display or stretched across multiple displays.


Makes windows under the cursor become active and move to the front of the window order.


Makes drop-down menus transparent when the main window is opaque.


Makes the taskbar transparent.


Displays the “global” transparency level. Click the up/down arrows to adjust the value, as needed.

Note: You can set individual application transparency levels using the application’s Individual Settings.


When this option is enabled and you click the Show Zoom Window option, the Zoom window displays a magnification of a fixed area on the screen.

1.	From the open Zoom Window, click Frame Window to display the Fixed Frame window.

2.	To magnify a different area of your screen, you can move the Fixed Frame window to another location on your screen. The magnified area appears in the Zoom Window.

3.	Repeat step 2, as needed, to magnify different areas on your screen.


Shows the cursor in the magnified display if the “Centered on cursor” or “Fixed frame” Zoom window style is selected.


Allows video to be displayed in the Zoom window.

Note: You must start the video “after” the Zoom window is open in order to see the video in the Zoom window.


Click to open the Overlay Settings panel, where you can zoom a video window to fit an entire screen at full playback speed.


Adds an application to the individually managed list box.

Note: If you do not set Individual Settings for the application, the application will be removed from the list when you close the nView Desktop Manager properties panel.


Click to add a Window Class to the individually managed list box.

Note: If you do not disable functions for the class, the class will be removed from the list when this panel is closed.


Click to remove an application or class from being individually managed or having functions disabled.


Click to set individual nView Desktop Manager window management and launch settings for an application.


Click to disable nView Desktop Manager functions  for a particular application or class of windows.


Click to turn on/off individual application settings for all windows.


Displays applications and window classes that have either Individual Settings (green check) or disabled functions (exclamation point or red X).


Click to set the wallpaper and/or icon for the desktop.


Click to show the current wallpaper and/or icon selection for the desktop.


Specifies whether to show nView Desktop Manager options when you right click on the desktop.


Displays a balloon message on the taskbar when nView Desktop Manager has to disable a function.


Displays a button on window title bars allowing the window to be minimized to its title bar.


Displays a button on window title bars allowing access to the nView Desktop Manager option menu.


Click to customize the nView Desktop Manager Menu Options.


Displays the desktop name for a short period of time on your screen when you switch to a new desktop.


Enables a utility that allows you to adjust your screen to compensate for keystoning effects.


Shows NVKeystone options on the desktop menu when you right click on the desktop.


Displays a test pattern that allows  you to optimally adjust your display.


Automatically aligns multiple displays and remove small pixel gaps..


nView Desktop Manager automatically checks whether  displays are still attached after resuming from a suspend or hibernate state.

If displays have been detached, the display settings are automatically changed to remove the  detached displays.


Click to move your desktop icons and your taskbar to a specified display.


nView Desktop Manager colors the border of application windows according to the application’s Individual Settings (accessible from the Applications panel) or the “Automatically assign colors. . “ option below. You can then manipulate color-keyed windows using color-keyed hot keys.


nView Desktop Manager automatically color keys windows that are open on the desktop using enabled colors that are not used in an application’s Individual Settings. Colors are automatically chosen from the color pool as long as colors are available.

Note: If all colors have been used, new windows cannot be colored.


This is a Color-Key color. Double-click the color to enable, disable, or edit it.


Global transparency level used by nView Desktop Manager for transparent windows, taskbars, and menus.

To set a specific transparency level for an application, use the application’s Individual Settings.


When this option is enabled with “Centered on cursor” Zoom window style and the Zoom window is maximized, the Zoom window automatically moves to the next screen if your cursor moves onto the Zoom window.


You can  use your mouse with applications under either Magnifying Glass or Fixed Frame Zoom window styles using the application’s standard mouse editing methods.


A desktop switcher is added to the standard  Alt-tab application switcher.

By default, this additional “switch desktop” functionality is accessed through an Alt-~ keystroke combination, which you can change from the Hot Keys panel..