Connect Surface to a TV, monitor, or projector. Simply Windows on Youtube - These videos are only available in English. After you've connected your Windows 10 PC to external displays, you can adjust the settings for each one. To change it in Display settings, go to Scale and Layout , then choose your preferred Display orientation. Troubleshoot external monitor connections in Windows Windows 11 Windows 10 More Before you start Before changing settings for your external displays, make sure everything is connected properly.
Here's what you can do: Make sure your cables are properly connected to your PC or dock. Video: Connecting a monitor Here's a video on the basics of connecting to an external monitor. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Windows XP will detect the new video card and install the appropriate drivers. If you have additional drivers for the card, then by all means use them instead of the default XP ones.
The most recent drivers will not only be technically superior, they often boast features that you will not find in the default drivers. Open Display from the Control Panel. On the Settings tab, click the monitor icon that represents the second monitor that you just installed.
Note: if the check box is not displayed, it may be because your video card does not support multiple monitors. Features such as resolution and colour depth can all be configured individually for each monitor. In the Display window you may also come across advanced features that relate specifically to the video card being used. To learn more about these advanced features, you should look up the Web site of the video card or chipset manufacturer.
Many video cards, particularly those found in notebooks, are equipped with dual adapters, which means you can hook two monitors to a single card. Windows XP provides support for these cards with its DualView feature. DualView is very similar to the multiple monitor feature already described, with the exception that you cannot select the primary display. Shenan Stanley. This 'splitter' - did it come with your video device? How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Palcouk Volunteer Moderator. You cannot extend the display if using a 'splitter' you would need to connect both monitors to the monitor connectors on the back of your PC If your PC has two monitor connectors. Ken Blake. In reply to Ken Blake's post on September 12, In reply to Palcouk's post on September 12, Palcouk wrote:. This is indeed a design issue with OS X. On a Mac you can put icons anywhere you want to, in the dock, in the menu bar, or make an alias of an original.
On the Pro there is a dual input jack card for the monitors. In terms of setting up, OS X wins hands down. It automatically detects monitors without having to reboot — you can swap in a new one even while the OS is running. This is massively useful if you tend to move the CPU box around a lot. In my case, for example, I have a inch Powerbook. All I have to do is put the Powerbook to sleep, unplug it from one site and then plug it into the other site and it automatically recognises the new setup.
In terms of usability, I agree Windows XP is better. This is not so bad IF the drive icons and dock were actually movable, so that you can keep the menu bar on the screen where you open apps the most, and have the drive icons and dock on another monitor to clear more space for the app. What Apple needs to do is allow dynamic movement of the desktop icons. In Windows XP, you can select and move the desktop icons — including the trashcan and start bar — wherever you like. In Windows XP you are in control.
But the big thing is: The low overall support for multi monitors on Windows sucks really badly compared to the Mac for one big reason: Losing Windows. Example: I use a laptop closed with 2 monitors connected.
When I disconnect, often an application will be orphaned over on the now non existent monitor. Closing the app and relaunching sometimes brings the window back up in never never land again. Pretty stupid. I love my mac, but I wish it could handle multiple monitor multi tasking at least as well as windows does.
Serious, each screen needs to have a menu bar for each application currently active in that screen. This is just crazy that this is not the case. It would also be nice to be able to disable spaces on certain monitors. That would be nice. Under OS X, the times I found a second display most useful were when using MIDI and music-related software, where you can drag over windows containing mixers, time-counters, waveform editors, or what-not to the second screen — freeing up the primary display to show all your recording tracks.
In this scenario, having the application menu bar available on the secondary display is worthless. But if I move my view to the PC monitor, I still want to see the video in a small window while working on other things. Dual display is important here because as I shift focus between the two monitors, I get the exact user mode that is appropriate without changing any settings.
When controlling the tuner, or file playback slider, I see video, instead of the black box that would normally appear on a dual video display where the controlling display has been set to secondary.
Looking through the comments, I Strongly agree with comment 3 — I am an interactive developer, and constantly have 10 or so programs open — but I never think in a program centric mindset, it is always document centric — I think this is the reason I always feel like I am going against the flow when trying to do my work in a PC — need to Maximize every window environment.
Deja menu is great for me, because I can just move across my 3 monitors to the docs I am working on, and squeeze my mouse to bring up the menu. This just sounds like a Mac bashing party on something that isnt even really practical for most uses, like the image that shows the monitors setup above, get real… lol.
If Windows can make it work, then OSX ought to make it work even better. Just give me a second menu bar, for crying out loud! I use spaces heavily, and think it would make a lot of sense to designate certain spaces for applications in the second monitor, allowing more control over multiple applications on multiple monitors. And, that should not be the case.
I know I can use Spaces. I fail to see how the document-centric approach, Fitts law, or whatever it is has any bearing on this very basic GUI design choice. With a Mac I just click whatever doc I want and the relevant menus etc. Like papers on a desk. A second display for a big page layout, video monitoring, an audio mixer or scientific data monitoring or other stuff is useful. More than that, not so much.
Your email address will not be published. Read Next. May 2, at am. Having used multi-monitors since I found out about it maybe 8 or 9 years ago I can tell you is is hugely useful if you are a developer. You can have your reference material, e. Paeregrine says:.
March 24, at pm. Thanks in advance, Paeregrine. Thom Pantazi says:. February 18, at pm. Funny thing is as a guy who has spent the last 28 years working on a PC of some sort, I am without a doubt a Microsoft expert. I have had dual and triple monitors for years on me Windoze machines.
I have coveted the idea of a quad of more setup. Some people say it is over-kill but I do modeling and each screen gets used extensively. Having said all that, last summer I finally broke down and bought two iMacs: one for me, and one for my daughter.
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