Friday 20 May 2011

how to add a second moniter for windows vista

Using two monitors with a release PC has be converted into a necessity for many advanced PC users.  With more than one monitor, you can handle more tasks and boost your productivity.
1. We will use a laptop and an ordinary monitor as an develop, we will mark laptop monitor as monitor 1 and ordinary monitor as monitor.  You may use the same steps on a desktop as long as it has more than one VGA or DVI ports.
2. Connect the VGA cable of monitor 2 to the VGA socket of your laptop. The VGA socket is usually a blue affect and has 15 pin holes. And nearly all laptop have a VGA socket. You can do this even as your laptop is twisted on.
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2. A dialogue box will pop-up, just click the selection that tells you to proffer this monitor.
3. Now you will see both monitors with the same sight, as if you just have two monitors doing the same business. This kind of setup is the best when building presentations using PowerPoint.
The following steps will let you proffer the Vista desktop so you can two displays with uncommon windows on them.
4. Aptly click on your desktop and click “personalize”.
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5. Then click on “Sight settings”.
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6. The Sight Settings dialogue box will pop-up as publicized below. Click on monitor that has a digit 2 on it, then check “Proffer the desktop onto this monitor”.
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7. Optional: Adjust the resolution bar in anticipation of both monitors have the same resolution
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You can also position your second monitor anywhere you want from aptly, left, top or underneath by just dragging the monitors.
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Some of the excellent looking setups I found on the Net are below:
From http://1.bp.blogspot.com
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From http://skattertech.com
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By the way, you can add more than 2 monitors as long as you have a motherboard that can support more than 1 record card.   For develop, if you have 2 record cards with two DVI outputs then you can have up to 4 monitors on a release desktop.

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