Hi, this is Bob from Plugable Technologies. What I'd like to
do today is something a little different. What you see on
screen is a representation of the two displays I have
connected to my desktop system and they're both showing just a
generic windows background. Now that's not all that exciting in
and of itself, but at plugable we make a lot of different
products that allow you to add additional displays to your
system, docking stations, video adapters, and other similar type
products. In the course of helping our customers and a lot
of cases we get questions related to how to change the
appearance of images on those despise. Now our products don't
directly affect this capability or allow you to change how
things look on windows. That's all controlled by windows
itself. So in this case, what I want to do is show something
pretty simple as far as changing the background image on a
multiple display system right now is that I can move my mouse
and you can see I've got two displays and they're showing the
identical windows background image as the Microsoft logo in
the center.
But what if I don't want that? What if I want a different image
to be on each display? Well, what you can do is you can right
click on an empty space of the desktop and select personalize
and under personalize. One of the very first settings you'll
see is the ability to adjust the background. Right now I have
background set to be a picture and I have the windows
background image selected, but if I change this to a different
image, you can see it puts the same background image on both
displays. Well, what if I don't want that? Let's go back to
personalize. Now you can make this change but it's not obvious
how to do it. So on my desktop system, display number two is on
the left and display number one is on the right. So I have a
simple example file here that simply says display number two
on a red background rather than left clicking it. If I right
click it, I see I've got more options available said for all
monitors said for monitor one or set for monitor two. Since I
want this to be the one for monitor number two, I'm going to
select that option and you can see that. Now I have on my
display number two, my background image that reflects
that. And on display number one, I have the Microsoft photo. So
if I want to go back and continue this process,
I can have another example right here where I have display number
one. I can right click, it said for monitor number one, and
again, you can see now I have my two different background images.
They're not very exciting, but again, they're just for an
example. So just a quick refresh. Windows by default,
when you select a background image on a multiple display
system, will assign that image to every display. If you want to
individually assign images, background images to specific
displays, you just have to right click on the image and set the
specific display you wish it to be applied to.
And then you can have two different images. Hopefully you
find that useful. And thank you for watching.