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here i have my laptop screen and i want
to extend it onto this larger external
monitor but how do i do that
hi everyone kevin here today i want to
show you how you can set up dual
monitors on a windows pc
this way you have more screen real
estate so now you could watch my videos
on two screens
why limit yourself to just one
at the very end i'll also show you how
you can use a laptop screen as your
second monitor
let's check this out
first we need to look at the available
ports on your computer
the physical ports that you'll find on
the side or on the back of your computer
and you'll likely see lots of different
ports we're looking specifically for the
display ports
here's a view of some of the most common
display ports
feel free to pause the video right now
to see if you can find a matching port
on your computer
once you find it that is your display
port
here as an example i have a laptop and
this one happens to have a thunderbolts
display port
okay we're making some good progress
next we're going to do the exact same
exercise but this time on our monitor so
here once again you can see all of the
most common display ports and see if you
can find a match on your monitor
here is an example i have a monitor and
it has an hdmi a display port and a
thunderbolt port so i can use any one of
these but because i have the thunderbolt
on my laptop i'm going to use the
thunderbolt on my monitor
now that we've identified what port you
have on your computer and what port you
have on your monitor now we have to
connect them with a cable
if you already have a cable at home that
connects to both of those ports you're
pretty much done but if not it's really
easy to pick up a cable
here i am on amazon.com you can use any
other retailer as well
and within the search field i'm going to
type in the first port name so in my
case i'll type in thunderbolt
then type in 2 and then type in the
monitor port name so once again i'll
type in thunderbolt and then i'll finish
off by typing in cable
now when i search for it i see all of
the different available options and here
i see a thunderbolt to thunderbolt cable
that's exactly what i need to connect my
laptop to my external monitor when you
search for cables online they'll have
just about any combination of cables in
fact you could even search for vga2
displayport they have that as well
if you have a very high end pc you'll
likely find that you have multiple
display ports on your computer
here in this example there's an hdmi and
three display ports
so theoretically you can hook up up to
four monitors to this computer
and you can watch a lot of kevin videos
that way
now that your monitor is connected to
your computer let's see how we can
configure it
on your windows desktop right click and
then select display settings
right up at the top you should see all
of your connected monitors
if you don't know which one is which
over here you can click on the identify
button and this will tell you which
monitor is which over on the right hand
side in this drop down list you can
choose how you want your monitors to
behave
here i can choose duplicate and this way
i'll see the same exact image on both of
my displays i can also choose to extend
my displays so this gives me even more
space to work with
once i extend my displays over here i
can position them where i want them i
can position it on the left on the right
on the top or on the bottom and this
affects how you move your mouse from one
screen to the other so you likely want
to match how you have your screens
positioned physically
back within this drop down i could also
choose just to show the image on one of
my screens so either on one or on two
this is helpful if say you have a laptop
connected to a monitor but you only want
to see the image on the monitor
lastly as a quick tip instead of going
through this settings view you can also
just press the windows key together with
the p key p is in project and that will
give you quick access to all of these
options
down below you'll see a wide variety of
settings that you can modify
and you might have noticed that these
settings are based on which monitor is
currently selected so here if i select
my other monitor i can then modify the
settings for that other monitor
next we're going to touch on some of the
more interesting settings and one of the
first ones here is you can make this
your main display
this affects things like where your
taskbar shows up and where notifications
appear
as a quick aside there are a number of
different taskbar settings when you have
multiple monitors
over on the left hand side click on
personalization and then click on
taskbar behaviors and here you can set
it so your taskbar shows up on all
monitors you also have a few other
settings as well
back within display settings you can
also adjust the scale so let's say that
you want all of your fonts and images to
appear larger you can set that
you can also adjust your monitor's
orientation if say you want the image to
be vertical
that covers all of the core features but
next i want to show you a bonus trick
that allows you to use a laptop as your
second screen so maybe you have an old
laptop sitting around at home you can
now use that as your second monitor
within settings on the left hand side
click on system
then click on projecting to this pc if
you don't see any drop downs on this
page like what you see here first you'll
need to enable it
click on optional features and then
let's click on add optional feature
here let's search for wireless display
then click on install
once you finish installing go back to
settings and projecting to this pc and
then launch the connect app
on your other pc go to display settings
and then click on connect to a wireless
display you can now connect to your
other laptop to project an image onto
that screen
next it'll ask you if you want to give
the laptop that you're projecting to
access to the mouse and keyboard you can
either check or uncheck this box and
look at that my laptop screen now serves
as a second screen
here i could expand the window i can
move it around i could also adjust it so
it's full screen so now it truly is just
another monitor for my primary computer
just like we looked at before you can go
into display settings and it treats this
just like another monitor so you could
adjust the position you could adjust the
scale the resolution everything that we
looked at before
once you're all done sharing your screen
you can press the windows p key p is in
project and here you can now disconnect
alright well hopefully you were able to
successfully set up dual monitors
let me know down below in the comments
how many monitors are you connecting to
your pc
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