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Extending desktop display onto displays of another computers or even Pocket PC
ZoneOS ZoneScreen is a free solution for extending your desktop display using displays of another computers (including Pocket PC), having network connection with main host. In some features it is similar to NetMeeting and Remote Desktop from Microsoft, allowing mirroring local desktop to another computer in the network.
The main difference is that it allows extend local desktop, not only mirroring it. Also, you could use ZoneScreen for Windows Mobile to extend/mirror your desktop to screen of your handheld.
ZoneScreen consists of two parts: kernel-mode (running with privileges of Windows kernel) driver for virtual display (which is visible to Windows just as normal video card with monitor attached to it), and user-mode (running as usual user application like Notepad) wizard which is responsible for capturing image, transmitting it over the network, and drawing it at another computer.
Machine, whose desktop is extended, called server. Server machine have display driver installed and ZoneScreen wizard running in server mode. Another machine which acts only as external display called client. Client machine have only ZoneScreen wizard running in client mode. Both parts of ZoneScreen (driver and wizard) are completely independent and can be used separately.
This mean that in case we are interested only in mirroring desktop image, we do not need to install virtual display driver, and if we are extending desktop with ZoneScreen display driver we could use any other software, for example RealVNC, for transmitting desktop image over the network. In this case we need transfer only space of virtual display (details).
· Local Area Network Connection
What\"s New in This Release: [ ]
· Hooking GDI functions to have list of updated rectangles in driver.
· Mapping frame buffer and list of updated rectangles to user-mode
· client application, like ZoneScreen Wizard or TightVNC Server.
· For security reasons buffer mapping is limited to local administrators.
· Checkmark for stretch/scale menu option.
· Shutdown deadlock fixed in Wizard in server mode.
· Help documentation as .chm file.
· Per-user and per-machine installation options.
· Elevated driver installation in UAC-enabled environment.
· Elevation for adding custom driver resolution.
· Refactored driver installation and fixed uninstall.
· Attaching and detaching ZoneScreen display from Wizard menu.
There are plenty of times when I wish I had more screen space or could easily transmit what I am viewing on my computer screen to the screen of another device on my network. The usual process is complicated and involves using a virtual display driver, which is a task I don't feel capable of doing on my own. Using the ZoneOS ZoneScreen 1.1.13.0 software makes it easy to view my screen contents elsewhere.
The software was developed by ZoneOS and is completely free to download and use. It is easy to install and get started. I found the interface to be very intuitive. To use it, you just have to open the software on both devices, set one as the server and the other as the client. Then you can choose whether you want to mirror the screen, which just transmits the whole thing to another device, or stretch the screen to give you more screen space on the other display. The program has plenty of controls to help you get both screens looking exactly how you want them.
I highly recommend this program to anyone who regularly wants to transmit the contents of your screen to another device. It is especially useful for smaller devices, like Pocket PCs.
