How To Put A Duo Monitor Background

How to Span 2 Monitors with I Background Image in Windows 10

Windows 10 is quite an impressive operating system. It's fast, it runs all of my old apps (even my retro games!), and it has tons of security improvements. It's even got some nice user interface improvements, one of which I want to describe in this article.

Many people utilise two (or more) monitors. I beloved having two monitors, information technology actually helps amend productivity when I'm writing, researching, or editing content. One source of frustration has been the desktop groundwork image. I prefer to have one groundwork paradigm that spans both monitors, but some versions of Windows have non supported this configuration.

Luckily Windows 10 has built-in support for using a single background image across multiple monitors. At that place are a couple of tricks that make information technology look great. Hither's how I recommend that you lot do it:

First, I figure out my cumulative monitor resolution. For case, I take ii 1920×1080 monitors sitting side-by-side, and then I add together the width of the monitors together merely use the height of ane.

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This makes my cumulative resolution 3840×1080.

Next, I indicate my browser at images.google.com. Yous've probably heard of Google before.

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

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Lots of dragons to cull from! Simply I want dragon that will look corking beyond 2 monitors. So I click Size so click Exactly.

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This lets me blazon in my resolution. I use the cumulative resolution from earlier 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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Next I save the paradigm to a local folder. It doesn't really matter which folder.

Then I launch the Settings app and click Personalization. For Background I choose Film and then click Scan. I browse to my crawly dragon movie and click OK.

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

That's all information technology takes! I hope you enjoy this feature.

Savour!

Mike Danseglio – CISSP, MCSE, and CEH

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