How to have 2 monitors with vista

You have to use your imagination a little, working to ensure that your cables will be able to reach the right locations.

As you can see from the photo above, we have a regular monitor paired with a ultrawide. Once in place, you can feed your power cables to your monitors and plug them in. This can be followed by the display cables you are using, with special care being taken to ensure that you plug them in correctly and in the right locations.

This can be done with your machine turned on and signed in. Windows 10 makes it incredibly easy to get started with dual monitors. All of the functionality most users will need can be found built-in, from the full-width taskbar to the easy setup process. With your monitors plugged in, you can right-click on the Desktop , followed by left-clicking on Display Settings.

This will give you access to a window with controls for your monitors. You should see a Multiple displays area, with options that will enable you to control your monitors. We have broken down some of these settings below to get you started. Alongside these dual monitor-specific options, you will also have access to your regular monitor settings.

This means that monitors can be set to have different resolutions and refresh rates, while also giving you the chance to choose how text scales. The division that is seen is the border between the two monitors. When I want to move between them I just move the mouse, or window, in the corresponding direction. In the second image I've brought up the instructables website on the right, another browser playing a video on the left, and a third window in between them. To see how this looks on the monitors just take a look at the last image.

In conclusion, I hope this instructable has been helpful. I mainly want people that are using laptops, or wishing they had larger screens, to realize what a normal person can easily do to help make their lives easier.

I mainly use this to watch video on the second monitor while I do other things on the laptop LCD. This lets me do other things without having to resize windows to ridicules dimensions. I've only have this setup for a day and my computer handles it just fine although the second monitor does tend to flicker every once in a while due to age.

Hope you've enjoyed and found this helpful and insightful! Thanks for reading! You can also try this guide too!! Reply 7 years ago on Introduction. Reply 12 years ago on Introduction. This may sound like a stupid question, so please forgive me, but how do I check if my laptop has a graphics card with multiple outputs? The only stupid question is the one not asked!

Checking for a video output on your laptop isn't at all difficult. You'll be able to tell very easily be checking to see if there's a port on it that matches up with the monitor cable.

Basically, if the plug on the end of the monitor cord fits into one of the ports, then that's most likely the one you're looking for, Additionally, because most newer computers have the ports color coded, the one you're looking for will probably be blue. The image i've included is rather blurry, but the blue thing is the video output port on my laptop, and it's a 15 pin adapter.

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