How To Make One Background For 2 Monitors

How to Span Ii Monitors with One Background Image in Windows 10

Windows ten is quite an impressive operating organisation. It'south fast, information technology runs all of my former apps (fifty-fifty my retro games!), and it has tons of security improvements. It'south even got some nice user interface improvements, 1 of which I want to describe in this article.

Many people apply 2 (or more) monitors. I love having 2 monitors, it actually helps improve productivity when I'chiliad writing, researching, or editing content. One source of frustration has been the desktop background image. I prefer to have one background prototype that spans both monitors, but some versions of Windows have non supported this configuration.

Luckily Windows 10 has built-in back up for using a unmarried background epitome across multiple monitors. In that location are a couple of tricks that go far expect slap-up. Here's how I recommend that you do it:

Commencement, I figure out my cumulative monitor resolution. For example, I have two 1920×1080 monitors sitting side-by-side, and then I add the width of the monitors together only use the height of one.

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This makes my cumulative resolution 3840×1080.

Adjacent, I point my browser at images.google.com. You've probably heard of Google before.

I search for the groundwork theme I'm interested in. For example, I searched for dragons.

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Lots of dragons to choose from! But I want dragon that will await not bad beyond ii monitors. So I click Size and then click Exactly.

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This lets me type in my resolution. I use the cumulative resolution from before of 3840×1080. At present Google Images narrows my choices to dragon themed images that are exactly the right size for my background.

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Side by side I relieve the image to a local folder. It doesn't really matter which folder.

Then I launch the Settings app and click Personalization. For Background I cull Picture then click Scan. I browse to my awesome dragon film and click OK.

Finally, nether Choose a fit, I click Span. This is the important detail. Span looks amazing if the picture is exactly the right size and so there'southward no cropping or scaling (get it?! Dragons, scaling?!?!)

That's all it takes! I promise you bask this feature.

Enjoy!

Mike Danseglio – CISSP, MCSE, and CEH

Mike Danseglio teaches IT Security Training, Windows, System Center and Windows Server 2012 classes at Interface Technical Training. His classes are available in Phoenix, AZ and online with RemoteLive™.