> Are there any emulators that will open a full screen on a secondary display? I
> use media player classic on WinXP to watch media files on the TV simply by
> dragging the application to that screen then going to full screen via ALT-ENTER,
> freeing up my monitor for doing something else at the same time as I watch the
> video (...)

Watching a video doesn't require the player window to be in focus. Playing games on an emulator in full screen does.

> When I ask about any emulators, I mean any console or arcade emulators
> specifically. The ones I tried were a few NES emulators, all of which did the
> same thing. I have not yet tried with MAME, but I read a post a few days ago
> from someone who mentioned having the menu (MAME32? Front end?) running on one
> screen and the game on the other. It would be very useful to be able to go to
> gamefaqs or some such place while the game is running rather than pausing,
> switching to a window view, going back to the monitor display, looking up the
> info, switching back to the TV, going back to full screen, then finally
> unpausing, only to realize I need to look at the website again because I just
> forgot what I read in all that...

In MAME you can specify which display to output to.

You won't be able to do any work on your primary screen while MAME is running though, unless you run it in a window. And even then, MAME will release all input devices when its window loses focus, and the person playing the game while you are going to gamefaqs will be pissed off at you for ruining his game.

-Sune