If you’re like me, sometimes you want to sit at your desk with your laptop, using a bigger keyboard and larger monitor. Well you might already know you can do just that. I usually
Plug in an external keyboard and monitor and leave the laptop sitting to the side. See the picture up top; monitor connected to the DB Connector (the blue 15 pin connector.), mouse connected to the USB port and keyboard at the end right-side (purple thing).
Or sometime you might be struggling with tiling or overlapping windows on your laptop’s LCD screen; you can just hook up a second monitor and extend your windows desktop work space so you can run multiple applications on separate screens. Whenever I’m using my graphic program, I usually have the images on one screen and the toolbars on another. I have a Dell inspiron 5000 laptop (and a inspiron 8000 too) running Windows XP, all I got to do is just plug the monitor up to it and then boot it up. Windows XP automatically recognize the second mother and set it up, all I might have to do is change the resolution on one of the screens.
Most laptops already have two video adapters-one for the built-in LCD and one for an external monitor, you don’t even have buy anything.
If you’re running a older operating systems like Windows 98, me… You might have to go to the Display Properties to choose the option to enable the second monitor.
Plug in an external keyboard and monitor and leave the laptop sitting to the side. See the picture up top; monitor connected to the DB Connector (the blue 15 pin connector.), mouse connected to the USB port and keyboard at the end right-side (purple thing).
Or sometime you might be struggling with tiling or overlapping windows on your laptop’s LCD screen; you can just hook up a second monitor and extend your windows desktop work space so you can run multiple applications on separate screens. Whenever I’m using my graphic program, I usually have the images on one screen and the toolbars on another. I have a Dell inspiron 5000 laptop (and a inspiron 8000 too) running Windows XP, all I got to do is just plug the monitor up to it and then boot it up. Windows XP automatically recognize the second mother and set it up, all I might have to do is change the resolution on one of the screens.
Most laptops already have two video adapters-one for the built-in LCD and one for an external monitor, you don’t even have buy anything.
If you’re running a older operating systems like Windows 98, me… You might have to go to the Display Properties to choose the option to enable the second monitor.
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