Setting Dual monitors on your Laptop or Desktop:

Have you ever connected two or more monitors on your laptop or with your desktop. For connecting two or more monitors on desktop you need a graphics card that supports dual monitors, but generally all laptop are configured to connect atleast one desktop monitor to your laptop.Conecting dual monitors to your laptop has many benifits. eg: you can view amovie on other monitor while you are working with one or you can view the changes you are making to your website on one monitor when you are developing your website, you can also view more than one application together and much more. Just follow simple steps to connect a monitor to your laptop or desktop(if your graphics card supports dual monitors):

Some Basics:

1) Connect the second monitor to the first one and now decide which monitor you want to use as primary monitor and which one as secondary.
2) Right click on desktop and select properties and then click on settings tab.
3) Select the monitor which is primary and secondary and then click on second monitor view and check the "Extend my windows desktop onto this monitor".
4) Click on the identity button, this will indicate which is primary and secondary monitor.
5) click on Apply button.
6) Drag the cursor to the secondary monitor and now you can view cursor on the secondary monitor.

NOTE: You will not see taskbar on the secondary monitor, you need to configure it and you will also see same wallpaper on both the monitors, you need to configure the wallpaper if you want to see same extended monitor on both the monitors.

Extending Taskbar to second monitor:

Extending same taskbar to both the monitors is very easy make sure that your taskbar is not locked. You can easily drag the taskbar to either of the monitors but if want to extend the taskbar to both the monitors there is a free utility called MULTIMON taskbar.You can easily download MultiMon This little utility adds a taskbar to your secondary monitor, and lists only the programs that are open on each screen in their respective ways.
There is another utility which does the same task called ULTRAMON which also extends wallpaper but you need to spend some money for it.

Extending same Wallpapers to both monitors:

When you select a wallpaper windows extend the wallpapers on both the screen by default i.e. you will see same wallpaper on both the screen.What if you have two monitors of different sizes, then you need to resize the wallpaper to extend the same monitor on both the screen.Here is a free utility to extend wallpapers called displayfusion. You can easily get this free licence software called DISPLAYFUSION. You need free .NET runtime to run this software. i.e. this software will only run when you have .net runtime installed on your laptop. This software supports both windows XP and Vista. There is another wallpaper management software called ULTRAMON but this is not a free utility, you need to spend some money to get this software.


Now you can use both the monitors together and enjoy its benefits.