Learn how to extend the desktop to multiple monitors in Windows 7.
Extend Desktop to Multiple Screens
- Open the Control Panel from the Start menu.
- Open Display in the Control Panel.
Note: If Display is not available, change View by to Large icons at the top right of the Control Panel.
- Click Change display settings in the Display window.
- Set the Multiple displays drop-down box to Extend these displays and then click OK.
- If everything looks OK, click Keep changes.
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Thanks for teaching people how to setup Multiple monitors. The gift of productivity is what you are giving to people! I actually have six monitors on my computer and I love it!
ok i can get the pic up on my tv its in b/w need to aceess some diff advanced settings to change it to i-pal like i do on xp or vista but of course that driver is incompatable!!! help plz
Hi,
I have installed Windows 7 build 7048 x64 and I’d like extend the display to composite device (TV) but not works. I try DNA-Ati driver but this works only if I disable digital driver enforcement in advanced boot option but it isn’t permanently. Anybody has a working solution to this problem? working digitally signed driver?
thanks
Thank you! This really helped me out alot. Cant wait til windows 7 retail comes out!
Don’t work for me, works on Vista though, god knows why they need to knob about with these setting, sometimes I think they change stuff for the sake of it. These options have been rock solid since about nvidia drivers in the 40’s (versions numbers I mean, they are up 175-180 something like that now), you had the 3 option for dual monitors, clone, extend and the other was called dual view I think so like an extra bit of screen relestate to plonk stuff on, and then Vista comes along an we somehow lost the extend, and now Win 7 is here and none of them work. Have you noticed also on Win 7 RC1, there are no options to report bugs like in the previous beta?
I need to take that back, I have just updated my driver to 185.85 and it has sorted it, so I need to say sorry to nvida/MS. I notice that I didn’t need to reboot either, and the other monitor started working without me having to choose the settings, nice…