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Or if you are working with remote desktop connection, you want your own desktop and the desktop of your remote computer both to be displayed maximized. You don't want to switch all the time between the two desktops.
The solution is to attach a secondary monitor to your computer so you can place one window, with the text you want to read from, on one monitor and place the window you want to type in on the other monitor. If you place your secondary monitor near you primary monitor you can easily read from it and write something on the other. Now you don't have to switch the windows all the time.
In the remote desktop situation you can use one monitor to put the desktop on of your computer and the other monitor to put the desktop on of your remote computer. Using this way you easily can control both computers.
How to create a situation with two monitors?
To create such a situation as explained above your need a few things:
- A secondary monitor
- A secondary video card or a video card with a secondary VGA port or DVI port.
If you have a secondary video card you install this card in your computer. You can connect your video card to a free PCI or AGP slot on your motherboard, depending on the type of video card. If the card is installed properly you can use it to attach the secondary monitor to it. If you have a video card with two or more monitor connectors you simply attach the secondary monitor to the free connector on it.
If the hardware is installed properly and both monitors are connected to you pc you can follow the next steps to setup the computer to work with these two monitors.
Step by step guide
Step 1:
Click with the right mouse button on your desktop and the click 'Properties'.The next screen is shown:
Step 2:
In this screen you click the 'Settings' tab and the next screen is shown.
Step 3:
In this screen you see that you can attach 2 monitors. Default is monitor 1 selected and set as Primary monitor, that's why you the option 'Use this device as the primary monitor' is disabled.
In this screen you can also set the screen resolution and the color quality.
If you click on the monitor with the number '2' in it you can set the properties for this monitor. The difference with the screen above is that, now you can check the checkbox 'Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor' and if this one is checked, also the checkbox 'Use this device as the primary monitor' can be checked.
Step 4:
Be sure both monitors are connected to your computer and that they are powered on.
'lick on the monitor with the '2' in it and check the checkbox 'Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor'. Do not check the other checkbox.
After you click the 'Apply' button your desktop is now extended to the second monitor and on that monitor you see the same background (without icons on it) as on your primary monitor. Now this monitor is ready to be used.
Step 5: testing and playing:
Now you can move your mouse from one monitor to the other just as they are one monitor together. You can grab a window you have opened and drag it to the other monitor and now this window is on the other monitor. To drag a window to the other window at may not be maximized because then you can not drag the window.
If you want to know which monitor is 1 and which one is 2 you simply click the 'Identity' button and the number is shown on each monitor.
Now it can be that, if you want to drag a window to the monitor 2, that you must drag in to the right, while you placed monitor 2 at the left side of monitor 1. Because this isn't very logical, you can change this situation.
Step 6:
You can change the position of the monitors by clicking on monitor 2 as shown in the screen in step 2 and drag it to the left of monitor 1. Now you see the next situation and now you can drag your windows to the left to put these on the other monitor.
As you see now monitor 2 is on the left and monitor 1 is on the right.
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