Skip ahead to ???Step 5, Tell Windows Where
Your Monitors Are.???
Step 4: Add a Second Monitor to a Laptop
This section describes how to add a second monitor to your laptop by using the external
graphics connector. If your laptop doesn??™t have an external graphics connector,
you??™ll need a more expensive solution. Go to the section ???Step 7: Add Two or More
Monitors to a Laptop,??? later in this project.
To add a second monitor to your laptop, follow these steps:
With the laptop running, connect the monitor to the laptop??™s graphics connector
and to a power supply.
Turn the monitor on. If Windows notices the monitor, it displays the New
Display Detected dialog box, shown here. When this happens, Windows
may change the resolution of your laptop??™s screen to match the resolution it
uses on the external monitor. As a result, your laptop??™s screen may go fuzzy.
Don??™t worry; this is only temporary.
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Select the appropriate option button:
Duplicate My Desktop On All Displays (Mirrored) Select this option
button if you want the external monitor to show the same picture as your
laptop??™s screen. You??™d choose this setting when giving a presentation on
an external monitor, but it??™s no use for getting more screen real estate.
Show Different Parts Of My Desktop On Each Display (Extended) Select
this option button if you want to use both the laptop??™s screen and the
external monitor.
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