Monitor ႏွစ္လံုးခ်ိတ္ဆက္ သံုးျခင္း

              Monitor ကို Laptop မွာ ဆက္သြယ္လိုက္ပါ။ ၿပီးရင္ Laptop မွာ Windows Key နဲ႔ X ကို တြဲႏွိပ္လိုက္လိုက္ပါ။ Windows Mobility Center ေပၚလာပါလိမ့္မယ္။ External Display ရဲ႕ Connect to Display ကို တစ္ခ်က္ႏွိပ္လိုက္ပါ။ အဲဒီအခါမွာ ေရြးစရာ Mode ေတြ ေပၚလာပါလိမ့္မယ္။

               Duplicate ဆိုတာက ဒီ Laptop မွာေပၚတဲ့အတိုင္း ဟိုဘက္ Monitor မွာ ေပၚပါလိမ့္မယ္။
Extend ကေတာ့ Laptop Screen နဲ႔ Monitor ကို ႏွစ္လံုးတစ္လံုးေပါင္းၿပီး သံုးတဲ့ပံုစံျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ စမ္းသပ္ခဲ့တုန္းက Extend ကို ေရြးလိုက္ပါတယ္။ ေဟာ ရပါၿပီ။

              Laptop မွာ Application တစ္ခုခုကိုဖြင့္ၿပီး Screen ရဲ႕ညာဘက္အဆံုးထိ ဆြဲေရႊ႕သြားလိုက္ပါ။ အဲဒီအခါမွာ အဲဒီ Application ဟာ ဟိုဘက္ Monitor ေပၚ ေရာက္သြားပါလိမ့္မယ္။

               ဒီဘက္ Laptop မွာ Application ကိုသံုးေနရင္း ဟိုဘက္ Monitor မွာလည္း Application တစ္ခုကို တင္ထားလိုက္မယ္။ အဲဒါဆိုရင္ေတာ့ တၿပိဳင္နက္တည္း အလုပ္ႏွစ္ခုေလာက္ ၿပီးသြားႏိုင္တယ္ မဟုတ္လား။

              Laptop တစ္လံုးနဲ႔ Monitor တစ္လံုး အလြယ္တကူ ရႏိုင္သူမ်ား စမ္းသပ္ၾကည့္ပါ။

Easily convert your laptop to a dual monitor system using your spare monitor

f you use your notebook computer as your main computer and if you have a spare monitor, then you can put your monitor to good use by making it your Laptop’s secondary monitor. It doesn’t really matter if the second monitor is a CRT or TFT, both work fine. First, let’s see why you would want to add a secondary monitor to your laptop. Here are a few reasons:

• It instantly doubles your desktop space without buying a larger monitor.
• You can work with two maximised windows at the same time.
• If you are working on a tool like Photoshop, which has lots of toolbars and panels, you could move the tools to the second monitor and have a large work area on your main monitor.
• If you need to compare two documents, you can open each of the documents in a different monitor.
• When browsing your picture library, you can view the thumbnails on one monitor, and use the second monitor to view the pictures full screen.
• If you need to stay on top of your e-mail while working, you can keep your inbox open on one monitor and work on the other.

These are just a few suggestion but actually how you use the dual monitors is only limited by your imagination. Now lets see how to set up the secondary monitor. Make sure that both your Laptop and the monitor are switched off. Connect the monitor to your Laptop by connecting it to the VGA or DVI connector, typically found on the rear of your laptop computer. Now switch on your laptop and the monitor. You will notice that initially, only one of the two monitors is activated. You can usually switch between the monitors by pressing the hotkeys in your laptop. Normally, it is a combination of the Fn key with another key with an image of a monitor on it (normally found on one of the function keys). To bring on the display on both the monitors you’ll need to adjust your display settings by following these steps:

1. Right-Click on an empty area on your desktop. On the context menu that pops-up click on Properties and on the resulting ‘Display Properties‘ window, go to the Settings tab.

2. Click the monitor icon labeled 2, and then select the Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor checkbox.
3. If necessary, drag the monitor icons so that they are arranged in the same way as the monitors on your desk. Clicking on the Identify button will help you know which monitor is 1 and which monitor is 2.

4. If need be, change the resolution of your secondary monitor to the most appropriate settings. You can change the resolution of the monitors independently.
5. Click Apply. Windows XP will activate your new monitor.
6. Finaly, click OK.

Once your monitor is set up, you can use your mouse to grab the title bar of a window and drag it to your new display. Make sure that the window you are trying to drag is not maximised, in which case you will not be able to drag it. To be able to drag it, first double-click on the title bar and then drag it. It may take you a while to get used to working on dual monitors, but once you do, it will forever change the way you work with your computer. Be creative and experiment with the sizing of application windows and what information you can keep in constant view while doing multiple tasks.

Expand your workspace with multiple monitors

Published: September 7, 2006

One of the best ways to improve your productivity is to double your desktop workspace by adding a second monitor to your computer. Using multiple monitors makes many computing tasks easier by allowing you to keep more windows visible. If you do any of the following things, you can benefit from multiple monitors:

•	E-mail and instant messaging. Work on one monitor, and keep your e-mail and instant messaging clients open on the other so you don't have to switch between windows when a new message arrives.
•	Research online. Open a Web browser or other research tool on one monitor, and have a Microsoft Office program open on the second monitor for note-taking.
•	Browse and edit digital pictures. Quickly browse your digital images by displaying thumbnails on one monitor and full-sized previews on the other.

The directions for connecting a second monitor vary slightly depending on what type of computer you use. You can connect a second monitor to a desktop computer, or you can connect a second monitor to a laptop or Tablet PC. Once you've connected a second monitor, you'll need to enable Dualview.

Connect a second monitor to your desktop computer

Many desktop computers have built-in support for multiple monitors. Look at the back of your computer to determine if you have an available VGA or DVI port. If you do, you can probably connect a second monitor and enable Dualview to take advantage of it.

If your desktop computer doesn’t have an available VGA or DVI port, you can buy an additional monitor and a second video adapter.
Note: Make sure that the video adapter connector matches the connector on your new monitor.
Monitors use either a VGA or DVI connector (or sometimes both). S-Video connectors are used to connect to a television.

Once your second monitor is connected, you need to enable Dualview. If you're not connecting a second monitor to a laptop or Tablet PC, you can skip the next section and enable Dualview.

Connect a second monitor to your portable computer

If you use a notebook or Tablet PC, your computer probably supports using both an external monitor and the computer's built-in display simultaneously. Simply plug a monitor into the external VGA port of your laptop and enable the Dualview feature of Windows XP.

If you have a docking station for your portable computer, it may support multiple monitors. Look at the back of your docking station to see if you have an available VGA or DVI port. If you do, you can probably connect two external monitors and enable Dualview to take advantage of them.
Note: You may need to close the lid on your laptop to use multiple external monitors.

Alternately, you can add a USB video adapter to your portable computer to support an additional monitor. When choosing a USB video adapter, make sure that it supports your new monitor's ideal resolution and has a connector that matches your new monitor.
Once you have connected your second monitor, you need to enable Dualview.

Enable Dualview

To turn on Dualview

1.	Right-click the desktop, and then click Properties.
2.	In the Display Properties dialog box, click the Settings tab.
3.	Click the Display list and select your external monitor. If you do not see multiple monitors listed, your computer hardware may not support Dualview. Contact your computer manufacturer for more information.
4.	Select the Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor check box.
5.	Click Identify. Windows XP displays large numbers to identify your monitors. Drag and drop the monitor icons to match the physical arrangement of your monitors.
6.	Click OK.

With Dualview enabled, you can drag windows between monitors as if the two monitors are connected. When you maximize a window, it will expand to fill the current monitor.