Patent ID: 7523402

Claim:
An information processing apparatus processing information and displaying plural windows on a display device, comprising: a screen memory for the display device; and a processing unit outputting image data of a specific window of the screen memory to an external monitor; wherein said processing unit executes plural tasks being started, displays the plural windows according to said plural tasks on said display device, and displays an external monitor output selection menu with a plurality of output modes in a menu bar of each of the plural windows, to select whether said image data of said window is output to said external monitor by said processing unit to be displayed, wherein said external monitor output menu includes an item that indicates that the image data of the window is always output to said external monitor, and an item that indicates that the image data of the window is output to said external monitor when effective on the display device, and wherein, for each of the plural windows, said processing unit checks which item of the external monitor output selection menu corresponding to the window is selected, and outputs the image data of the selected window to said external monitor according to a result of checking.