How to set up multiple monitors in Windows 8

Little left teaches you how to set up multiple monitors in Windows 8 to make your screen display cool.

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Contents:

1. Setting up multiple monitors

2. Key features enhanced by dual monitors

3. Connecting the monitor

1.

Multiple monitors

There have been some changes that will be made available to users who connect multiple monitors to the computer

A better experience.

You can start using multiple monitors from the Windows UI or the desktop interface.

For Windows UI:

1. Call Windows Charms by sliding your finger from the right side or moving the mouse cursor to one of the right corners.

2. Select the device.

3. Select the second screen.

4. There are four options: PC screen only (“PC screen only), Duplicate(“copy”), Extend(“extension”), and Second screen only(&ldquo ; only the second screen & rdquo;). Choose the best option for you.

These options will allow you to configure the screen as follows:

PC screen only(“PC screen only) - the second screen will be ignored and only use PC Main display.

Duplicate - The second screen mirrors the main display.

Extend - Extends the PC display to span two screens and allows you to have a desktop across two screens or

using Windows UI on one screen, in another Use the desktop on one screen.

Second screen only - The main PC display will be disabled and only the second screen will be used.

For traditional desktop mode: 1. Go to “Control Panel” and select “Show”.

2. Select “Change Display Settings” on the left.

3. In the "Change Display Settings" window, click and drag the virtual display to mimic your physical settings.

4. Click “OK” to complete the operation.

2.

Key features enhancements for dual monitors

• Corners and edges are active on all displays

oThrough the mouse Clicking on the corners of the screen to browse, or by touching the edges of the screen, is part of the

of the Windows 8 core browsing experience. It is important to support these corners and edges in the right way on a PC with multiple displays. Windows 8 accomplishes this by making the corners and edges of all connected displays active through

.

o When it comes to Windows UI and applications, there is no single main display concept. The display you access to a corner on it

will be the display that displays the interface.

Accessing the “Start” screen or previous application from the left corner will always open the UI on the display where you access its corners.

This also applies to the Charms Bar.

• Easily move a WindowsUI application to another monitor. By grabbing the Windows UI application on the top edge and dragging it from one monitor to another, you can easily Move the Windows UI application to another display.

If the application has been crawled, it will also be crawled on other monitors.

oYou can also move Windows UI applications from one display to another by using the keyboard shortcuts Win+PgUp and Win+PgDn

Note:

Windows UI applications can only be displayed on one display at a time.

• Browsing along shared edges has improved

o On PCs with multiple monitors, one or more screen edges may be shared. For example, two monitors placed next to each other

(where each monitor has the same screen resolution) will share the top and bottom edges of the screen. Because corners

are very important for browsing in Windows 8, so we need to be able to easily click on each corner, but when you can't

use the mouse like on a single monitor system This operation is difficult to achieve when moving to any corner.

o To solve this problem, we created real corners on the shared edge so that once you lock the corners, when you click on the corners,

Windows will not allow you to accidentally cross Corner boundary. It does this by extending the corners on the shared edge

So if you move along the edge and click on the corner (within 6 pixels), the mouse will stop. You can think of it as a 6-pixel

wall that extends from the shared corner.

In the screenshot, the red line indicates where you will enter the real corner.

Figure 1: Red corners indicate the true corner position

• Now, the taskbar is displayed by default on all displays

oConnect multiple In the case of a display, Windows 8 will draw the taskbar on each display. By default, all taskbar icons

are displayed on the main display and on the taskbar of all other displays

Figure 2: The taskbar is stretched to span each display

o Use the taskbar properties to configure the taskbar on multiple monitors.

To configure, perform the following steps:

1. Right-click on the taskbar 2. Select Properties

3. In Taskbar (“Taskbar In the Multiple Displays of the tabs, make sure the Show Taskbar on all Displays checkbox is checked

4. Then click or click OK (OK) )

oYou can use the options to control the taskbar icon displayed on the display: All icons on all monitors(“all icons on all displays”), All icons

on main Taskbar and taskbars on other displays(“All icons on the main taskbar and other monitors' taskbars) will only display icons on the display where the application is running, or only run

tasks for 789app An icon is displayed on the bar.

• Setting a different background for each monitor

o You can now set a different background for each monitor. When choosing a personalized theme, Windows 8 automatically

places different desktop backgrounds on each display. You can even set up a slideshow to cycle through the images on all

displays or select a specific background image for each display.

Figure 3: Different Backgrounds on Each Display

oWhen you right-click on the image in the Personalization(“Personalization”) Control Panel, you will see a Option to control which display

the background appears on.

Figure 4: Setting the background for each monitor

• Multi-monitor slideshow

o People usually have multiple monitor settings that contain different sizes and/or Directional display. Of course,

Not all photos look great in portrait and landscape or all screen sizes and resolutions. To solve this problem, we added logic to the

slideshow to choose the most appropriate image for each monitor.

Figure 5: Windows will automatically select the appropriate size and orientation for the slideshow

• Desktop background across all monitors

oYou can now make a single panorama Across multiple displays. We also include a new panorama theme in the Personalization Options for Windows 8

.

Figure 6: Desktop background across the monitor

oTo set this up, select the panorama desktop image and select Span as the picture position(<quo;by image position spanning”) .

3.

Connecting the monitor

Connect the monitor cable from the monitor to your laptop or desktop.