How to set up a computer two monitors

Dual monitor settings, how to set up a computer two monitors: Generally speaking, a computer is usually only equipped with a display, in our usual work, entertainment is basically such a match. But this usage, when you open more than one window, a display space is very small, especially to do some complex work, such as analysis of charts, debugging programs, you often need to constantly switch back and forth between different windows, very troublesome, there is no way to make these things simpler?

There is a way! The answer is: Windows Dual-screen display (or multiple screens, Windows can support up to 10 monitors working at the same time)

If you want to use two monitors for your computer at the same time, you need to upgrade your graphics card on the hardware. At present in the market mainstream ATI and NVIDIA chips in high-end graphics cards are mostly equipped with DVI, HDMI and even display pro and many different displays of exports, which undoubtedly for the realization of multiple screens at the same time provide the possibility of output. The price of this kind of product is mostly above 600 yuan, this aspect capital investment is indispensable. In addition, when acquiring a second monitor, you also need to pay attention to the matching upgrade of the graphics card output interface type to match with the new monitor, such as your old monitor DVI interface, but the graphics card has only a D-VI interface and an HDMI interface, then the new monitor must be able to support the HDMI interface, Otherwise you have to buy another transfer device, this will be more trouble. In addition, when the hardware is in place, you will need to upgrade the driver of the graphics card to the latest version and turn on the multiple-screen input function in the control software of the graphics card, so that two screens can output different content.

Installation of Dual Monitor

Dual-screen display is the use of a dual-head output card to connect two monitors. Now almost all of the video card is a dual-head output, a VGA a DVI, two DVI or a DVI one HDMI. When you connect to a monitor, VGA or DVI only (depending on the type of interface of the monitor), when the dual display, two monitors respectively to the VGA and DVI video card, if the monitor without DVI input, you can turn the VGA adapter DVI, the video card DVI to VGA, as shown in the following figure.

Dual Monitor settings

In fact, the two-screen display is very simple, because Windows itself support this setting, so, after you put two monitors are connected, start your computer, in the Windows Display Properties-Settings page, you will see a two display icon, as shown in the following figure.

Look at the figure, select the 2nd Monitor, and then set the appropriate resolution to it, and check the "Extended Windows desktop to this monitor", you can light the second monitor, the following figure.

At this point, you can press and hold the Open Task window (hold down the blue title bar of the form) and move the mouse to drag the window from one screen to another (note: The maximized window cannot be moved), as shown below.

Moving the program to the extended screen, as well as maximizing it, can be understood as an extension of the main screen, a part of the main screen, so that almost all programs can run on the extended screen without restrictions (note: You may need to install the original driver for the video card).

What are the additional benefits of extending the screen

As Windows expands to address the emergence of tools that run complex tasks, it now has a better use: Now home multimedia and LCD TVs have almost all VGA and HDMI interfaces, so that they can be easily connected to the computer and used as a monitor. Imagine how great it would be to have another output from a video card to a big-screen LCD TV, watch a high-definition program on the web, or play a computer game with a LCD TV instead of a monitor. You can watch movies on TV or on the Internet, and computers can do other things. If the distance between the computer and the TV is not more than 3 meters, you can connect the TV to the computer directly via the VGA line or the HDMI line. If the distance is more than 5 meters, as a result of the attenuation of the signal, directly with the VGA line or the HDMI line connection has difficulty, at this time you can use the Leap Granville technology of the audio and video bridge UVA extension, the study computer image, sound, USB and other extended to the living room TV, we can play computer on TV.

Methods and tips for using extended screens

Although the extended screen is part of the main screen, careful users may find that there is a difference between the extended screen and the main screen: The extended screen does not have a taskbar, and you can't lock the shortcut button on the extended screen (you can drag it to the extended screen with your mouse, but automatically move back to the main screen when you reboot). When the main screen and the extended screen in the same (extended screen most classical usage), there is no problem, but if we use the living room TV as the expansion screen, the study monitor as the main screen, it will be very inconvenient, this how to do? Set up a computer two monitors

This requires an extended screen management tool, we often use the UltraMon, after installing the software, the expansion screen will appear two changes:

You can lock the shortcut button on the extended screen, so as long as the need to run in the living room TV programs (such as the player, etc.) once the shortcut button drag and drop on the expansion screen (TV) on it, and then turn on the TV, with the mouse to double-click the shortcut button can run, do not have to drag and drop every time.

The taskbar is on the extended screen, after setting UltraMon, all the taskbar icons for the running programs appear on the taskbar of the extended screen as well as on the main screen, and you can right-click on the taskbar icons to move the task window to the current monitor, or Move to the other display, so that once we open the program and the program window is not on the current screen, we can send it to the current screen with this feature.

As shown in the UltraMon option Settings page, in the smart taskbar, check the use smart Taskbar and mirrors-Show all tasks for each taskbar.