what multi-monitor configuration most efficient???

Hello, I just got a second display for my workstation and am playing around
with the displays. Are people commonly spanning the two screens and how
exactly is it done. I can maximize the window but it doesn't exactly seem
like the best solution for a seond monitor. Just looking to see what other
people are doing.

 

I don't span the two screens. I use one for SolidWorks and the other
for whatever else I may have open at the time (generally email and
eDrawings).

 

I extend my desktop to the second monitor (primary 24" lcd - left side,
secondary 19" lcd - right side) and I rotate my secondary by 90º and move my
task bar vertical on the left side of secondary monitor. I use the second
monitor for email, web stuff, word, excel, pdf's. I like it rotate because
then I don't have to scroll as much. I experimented moving some SW toolbars
and stuff over to the secondary but I found I was wasting a lot of time
moving my mouse between monitors. I could never go back to one monitor.

ambush