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Do this with all the displays you want to move. When you're happy with the layout, select Apply. Test your new layout by moving your mouse pointer across the different displays to make sure it works like you expect. After you're connected to your external displays, you can change settings like your resolution, screen layout, and more.

Windows will recommend an orientation for your screen. If you change the orientation of a monitor, you'll also need to physically rotate the screen. For example, you'd rotate your external display to use it in portrait instead of landscape. Here's what you can choose. See your desktop across multiple screens. When you have displays extended, you can move items between the two screens. Troubleshoot external monitor connections in Windows. Troubleshoot connecting Surface to a second screen.

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.

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Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in any way. Sponsored By. About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. About Newsletter. Hosting By. Share on Twitter or Facebook or use the Permalink. October 18, And only wireless? I docked my surface next to my desktop and gave up on this since they use wired network.

Use km-switch at least with mouse without borders. Just checked it out using my desktop and laptop and it worked reasonably well, I had to launch the "Connect" app on the device getting projected too, but other than that it worked fine.

Both machines were using Nvidia graphics too. Oh wow I've known about Miracast for a while, but haven't wanted to buy a TV just for that. I don't travel much, but this opens some new use cases for the laptops I've got an old Alienware laptop hooked up to the main TV we use it as our media center and Minecraft server. Didn't know about the input sharing though - that would make it easier to run updates and that sort of thing from my regular PC instead of the tiny media center keyboard. October 19, Used Rover well over 10 years ago to connect multiple desktop PCs together for the same purpose That enables me to cast a chromium tab or the full desktop to any compatible device which might be directly connected to the laptop or in WiFi range..

Other set ups and devices are available.. Wow, I wish I had known this before! Is there any way NOT to also connect the sound though? When extending a display I want to keep using the speakers of my main computer, not the ones from the old laptop on which I extended my display Tried some solutions over the years but unlike those this is easy to setup and working like a charm!

Default the audio is sent to my connected laptop as well, but setting the audio playback device back to my main machine solved that. Thanks for this tip! Any word if this works on the Surface RT's Scott?

This would make a really cheap option for a small, high resolution portable monitor with great battery life. Jake Langford. The long-awaited? John Garland. Grastveit, thanks for the link to Mouse Without Borders.

I was trying out the solution Scott provided, thought "meh, not to bad, but I'd prefer to use the desktop directly on my surface using my mouse and keyboard" and am super happy with Mouse without Borders.

I actually started to think about how it could be realized, even better to find it production ready for free!

Marc Wittke. October 20, Chris Jones.