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Multiple monitors

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Multiple monitors

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- Why have just one monitor, when you can have multiple monitors? So in this episode, I want to talk about Microsoft Windows use of multiple monitors. It's absolutely fantastic. All my desktop systems have multiple monitors just because, well, I need all the real estate. So, what I want to do is kind of go through the idea of multiple monitors. First of all, you don't need a special video card. You don't even have to have them plugged into the same video card. If you have one monitor plugged into your built-in graphics and another one plugged into a graphics card, it doesn't matter. They don't have to be the same resolution, they don't have to be the same size. However, I will tell you it's often a lot more convenient to use multiple monitors when you do have two monitors that are matching in resolution, and even size is nice too. So, I've got a couple of monitors in front of me. They have the same resolution, different…

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