How to set up a secound monitor

**deejaygee** · 03-13-2010, 05:46 PM

Watching some of these tutorials and youtube videos .I have seen people using their laptop then another bigger moniter off to the side how do you do it and . ALso i saw somwhere can not remember the sit but this guy opend up hs program on his laptop the dragged it over to the bigger screen how is that done any help thanks

**charo** · 03-13-2010, 07:40 PM

you have to connect the secondary monitor to the vga/hdmi port on the laptop then go in to the graphics properties and tell the computer how to setup the two screens. there are a few different modes, clone, additional secordary or primary modes depending on what you are trying to do.

in a video were someone drags a window from one monitor to another, then they have the second monitor as an extended desktop. if you just wanted the same thing on both screens you would use clone.

it's pretty easy, best of luck

**cutflow** · 03-13-2010, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by charo

you have to connect the secondary monitor to the vga/hdmi port on the laptop then go in to the graphics properties and tell the computer how to setup the two screens. there are a few different modes, clone, additional secordary or primary modes depending on what you are trying to do.

in a video were someone drags a window from one monitor to another, then they have the second monitor as an extended desktop. if you just wanted the same thing on both screens you would use clone.

it's pretty easy, best of luck

charo nailed it here, probably because hes a cute cookie. ;]

**deejaygee** · 03-13-2010, 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by cutflow

charo nailed it here, probably because hes a cute cookie. ;]

Thanks very much , you have me lmao thanks again. One more stupid question if the plug at the end of my monitor is too big for my laptop addapter i would assume

**charo** · 03-13-2010, 11:21 PM

what is the model and make of the computer?

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**BentoSan** · 03-13-2010, 11:37 PM

I recently bought a second monitor to dj with- its setup behind my decks.

I just plug it in via the VGA port, right click on the desktop then click "screen resolution" (win 7), enable the monitor, then setup the resolution size to the max supported size and make sure the "extend my desktop" option is selected so i have 2 individual monitors and not just a cloned monitor.