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If you have access to two (or more) monitors and wish to run a mini-display from your main computer, to demonstrate how a certain programme works to a small group of people, who can watch from either monitor, a simple and reasonably economical way is to buy a Monitor Splitter Cable. This ranges in price from $10.00 up to $42.00, so I've noticed, for basically the same product.
Connect the 15-pin male plug (it has 2 cables coming from it) to your Video Card in your computer and each of the two separate cables with the 15-pin female plugs to the two separate monitors.
Note that the display capability of the whole system is limited to the specifications of the less able monitor. That is, if your main monitor displays at 800 x 600 with 24-bit colour, that monitor will still display regardless of the other monitor. However, if it does not have the same capability (or better) than the main monitor, it will just display a jumbled mass of coloured lines. This may be able to be corrected by lowering the demands of the secondary monitor, say to 640 x 480 with 4-bit colour. In other words, both monitors can only display at the lesser monitor's capability.
This splitting can even be done a second time so that joining two Splitter Cables can divide the signal to a third monitor. I have only gone as far as displaying on three monitors at a time. There did not appear to be any loss of definition on any of the three monitors, even though the one signal was being shared.
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