Dual monitors with Win 2000 & Trident Cyberblade Ai1

[mago]

Hello,

I just bought a new flatscreen (Dell 1704 FPT) to be used as an external monitor with my laptop/notebook Toshiba Satellite S1800-204. The laptop comes with Trident Video Accelerator Cyberblade-Ai1 AGP. As OS I'm using Windows 2000.

My problem:
In Control Panel/Display/Settings/Advanced I can choose LCD+CRT. When I do this the desktop shows on both screens (resolution not really optimised though).

I want to use the external screen for viewing and my laptop screen for coding. In other words, I want to activate multiple-monitors to expand the desktop to more than one monitor (virtual desktop). I've read that I can adjust the layout of the monitors in Control Panel/Display/Settings by clicking different icons. These icons are presented as numbers that represent the monitors. The problem is that there are no such icons in my Control Panel/Display/Settings. Maybe there are some other settings that I need to change first, I'm not sure.

Question 1:
If I can view the desktop on both screens (exact mirror image), does this also mean that I will be able to expand the desktop to multiple/dual monitors (virtual desktop)?

Question 2:
If your answer to question 1 is yes, do you know how this can be fixed?

Best regards

[mago]

After some research I found that it won't work. Only Windows 98 supports this feature. So my next question is:

Is there any "virtual desktop" software that would make this work with Windows 2000?

Any help is appreciated.

PS. I had a look at some VGA adapters but they don't support higher resolutions.

[mago]

Also, on Toshiba's website one can read:

"Windows offers an option which provides a means of using multiple monitors to create a single virtual screen. This option, called Multiport, was offered with Windows 98.

According to Microsoft, Windows Multiport makes it possible to use multiple monitors with a single display adapter. Notebooks computers which use a built-in display adapter can take advantage of this option if using Windows 98. However, this Multiport feature is not offered with Windows 2000.
Note: The help file on Windows 2000 does not make this clear and can make it sound like Multiport is supported."

Do you think it might work with Windows XP?