hello and welcome to another video from windowsloves.com this is me her sprouts roll
and in today's video i'm going to show you how to split screens in windows 10 so let's get started
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below as i try to reply to each and every one of your comment now there's different scenarios where
you can split your screen into multiple windows or you can extend your setup into multiple monitors
i'm gonna go through a couple of scenarios where and how to split screens in those scenarios the
first one is if you want to split your screens into two for example if you want to open two tabs
or two windows side by side in windows 10 i'll show you how to do that another way is if you
want to extend your setup for example if you have more than one monitors how do you split screens
to two monitors so that you can use both of them simultaneously as if they were a single monitor
the third one would be a bit more advanced or for users who are looking for more complicated setups
for example if you have a really big monitor like a 5k monitor and you would like to use
a certain portion of this of the monitor for different things and
make it easier to snap a windows to those sections and and stuff like that so so depending on your
scenario please use the chapters in this video to skip forward to the part that resonates with you
okay all right so let's see how to split screen in windows 10 side by side by default i have
this tab open in this browser and i have this file explorer so if i want to open these two
side by side by default what i can do is you can click on that window so they can drag it and you
drag it all the way to the left or to the right depending on where you want to play so for example
if i want to place this on the left so i'll go and slide it all the way to the left until the
mouse touches the edge of the screen and leave it and it snaps to the left side of the screen and on
the right side it shows you all the windows that are open so what i'm going to do is click on that
and then as you can see it snaps to the other side so this is how you can open two windows side by
side in windows 10. now what if you have a really big monitor and you would like to open four tabs
in one monitor so for example i have four windows so now windows default snap in feature allows you
to align these four windows in one screen so if i drag this to the corner it will snap to that
corner and if i drag another window snap it to the other corner it will snap it to that and the same
for these ones as well as bottom right and it'll give you the prompt so that's how you can snap in
or split your screen into four and then use them simultaneously so that's how you can split your
screen into four by default by using the windows default snapping feature now if that's fulfills
your needs then that's fine how to split screen in windows 10 if you have more than one monitors
or multiple monitors i have two monitors one is my laptop's intel display and another monitor
that's connected with a hdmi so if you have two monitors side by side you can split the screen
and use both in that for that setup you'll have to extend your setup so to do that once your monitor
is connected uh please make sure that your uh laptop or your computer supports a dual monitor
not all the computers will support two standalones or separate screens
when connected to them once it's connected right click on your desktop and go to display settings
and now if you look under under display or re-arrange your displays i have two
uh screens basically so if you click on identify on the bottom left corner you will see those
numbers here so this is number two and on my laptop i see number one uh first thing you got
to make sure is you can rearrange these displays from here and depending on how these displays are
set up here or arranged in this uh setup it will replicate exactly the same way so as um so as you
can see at the moment number two is on the left and number one is on the right okay so if i drag
my mouse or any windows from number two towards number one if i drag it towards the right hand
side once that's done if you scroll towards the bottom uh under multiple displays you will see
at the moment it's set to show only on two so that means at the moment i can only see or i can
only use my number two monitor which is my main monitor but for example you wanna split screens
into two and use both of the screens what you can do is click here and there's an option to extend
these displays click on that you got to make sure that you select the display on the top and
click and select it to be your main display so that every any window that you open
or any uh application that you open will be and all the desktop icons will be on that monitor
so for example i want my screen one to be the main monitor for now so what i'm gonna do is and as you
can see the display option as is greyed out so that means number one is my main monitor and any
icons or any desk all the desktop icons and any new applications that are open will be opened in
this screen so that's how to split screens on your laptop or on your computer if you have
more than one monitor and you want to extend your displays if you want to split a certain section
uh for something else and certain section for something else and do that very quickly as well
and make sure that it's very snappy you'll need to download a tool called power toys
so let's get into that so power toys is a free application available to download from microsoft
and this does more than uh creating or splitting your screen but i primarily use it for that
feature and i'll show you how to set up that uh just in a second so to download that you need to
go to docs.microsoft.com i'll make sure that this link is in the description as well it's a free
free to download tool and i would suggest that you download this tool if you have a bigger real state
of monitor to work from so for example if you have a 4k monitor or 27 inch monitor 49 inch monitor it
works really good with a 49 inch monitor um i currently have 49 inch monitor and i i use this
to create multiple sections and stuff like that i'll show you my setup as well so to click on
install power tools it'll probably take you to the github so it will be at the bottom power toy setup
and the download power toys i've already downloaded it the installation is also pretty
easy so once you've downloaded and installed power toys what you want to do is open power toys
if you don't see anything load ups what you want to do is if you go to the bottom right corner
click on this tray and you will see the power toys is already running so double click on it
and this will start so you got to make sure that it is running as an administrator so if it is
not running as administrator this button will be blue in color and you will be able to click on it
at the moment it is running as administrator so it's not giving me any color so click on that
if you are getting an option to click and always make sure that it's set to always run as an
administrator so once that out of the way what you want to do is you want to create your sections so
for that click on fancy jones okay and if it's disabled make sure you enable it and once that's
done what you want to do is click on launch your layout editor now as you can see in the background
that's the default sections it's created for me and you can go and create rows you can create
grid and or you can create focus and stuff like that so these are two layouts that i
work with if you want to create a new one for yourself what you need to do is click on create
new layout and name it anything it's going to name it test for now and make sure you select grid
click on create now this is one of the features one of the reasons why i really like power tools
and what i why i use this over windows snapping so as you can see you can drag these around so
this is your first section or first window this is your second window and this is your third
window so depending on how many windows you want so for example what how i like to keep it is
so i have a section in the middle where i open my main browsers or main window
and on the side i'll have something open for research or for any window that i need to
monitor 24 7 or while i'm working another thing is for example if you want to split this in half
as you can see it's giving you an option to split it horizontally if you want to split this
vertically what you got to do is click hold your shift and this will change and if you click on
it this will split it vertically so now you have four windows or four uh four sections to work with
okay unfortunately i couldn't find a cancel or an undo button so yeah all you got to do is cancel it
and start again if you if you mess up if you split the screen by mistake so once that's done so for
example i want to create uh three sections but one of the sections i want to split in
two so i have four so i'll have one tab on number one another tab on number two
and number three maybe i'll make it a bit bigger so that i can uh read content more easily
and then you click on save and apply okay another thing i want to change is as you can see the
distancing is a lot and there's a lot of padding and there's a lot of margin around it so what
you want to do is edit and you can also create a shortcut for that i'll show you how to use that
in a second to space around zones i like to keep it at 2 and highlight distance i'll keep it at two
as well so now you can increase them as you prefer and if you can save and close it okay so now that
disappears so what i what you can do now is if you open a tab for example i open this tab and
if you hit the shift key and then drag this window around it gives you this it gives you the sections
of the screen so if you drag it over any of the numbers or any of the sections
this window will snap into that section so for example if i put a number one and leave
it it will snap in and resize to that section if i drag it hold the shift and then take a number four
it'll snap in and resize accordingly to that section as well so it's really important so if i
bring it to number three and leave it at sections as well so this is one of the really important
features if you are using a very big monitor or have a lot of real estate to work with so now if
you have multiple layouts for example if i click on launch layout editor i have about three layouts
uh for example if you're watching a movie on the side you might have a different layout if you
are into trading and stuff you might have charts open on the side so what you can do is for example
i want to have i want to be able to switch between layout 1 and layout 2. what you can do is edit and
you you see the layout shortcut so you can click that and number one okay and save go there two
now if you want to switch around with those layouts what you can do is if you minimize that
windows windows control alt and that number okay so that's changed to different layout
and if i hit ctrl alt control and number two it switches another layout so if i go number one
it gives me that section so i'll be able to move things around in the into these boxes and if i
go and change my layout and if i hold the shift key i have these options to snap my window in
all right if you have used mac os before there's a really cool feature
where you can search the whole pc uh this enables that as well for windows it's really
good i haven't used it very much but if you like to use it what you need to do is hit the alt
and space bar and this opens up a search bar and you can basically search anything that's in your
computer and then you can search for anything so if i search for writing open this folder
it's pretty good so it's it's uh similar to the search but i think this uh this looks for
things in more places okay so that's how to split screen in windows 10 depending on if you want to
split a screen side by side or open a window side by side or if you want to split
a screen into multiple sections if you have a different if you have a big monitor
or how to split your screen into two monitors and use a extender setup
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