{"id":18240,"date":"2010-09-13T13:56:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T18:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=18240"},"modified":"2010-09-13T13:56:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T18:56:22","slug":"techbite-two-monitors-heck-make-it-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/techbite-two-monitors-heck-make-it-three\/","title":{"rendered":"TechBite: Two Monitors? Heck, Make it Three!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/stevewp.jpg\" alt=\"steveb\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7167 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Steve Bass<\/p>\n<p><strong><a name=\"where's\" id=\"where's\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a>Where&#8217;s My Monitor?<\/strong><br \/>\nListen to this concession: &quot;Okay,  yes, once you&#8217;ve used a two-monitor setup, going back to a single monitor  sucks.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>That from my wife who last year resisted  using a second monitor. It&#8217;s so darn quaint when she admits she&#8217;s wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Judy found that out when I brought  home a friend&#8217;s PC for repair, needed a monitor, and borrowed hers. (First rule  of computing: Use someone else&#8217;s equipment whenever possible.)<\/p>\n<p>The repair was taking longer than  I expected &#8212; funny how computers do that to you &#8212; and, my <em>pobrecita<\/em> was feeling deprived. <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"two\" id=\"two\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a><strong>Two Monitors in Every Office<\/strong><br \/>\n  I added a second monitor years  ago and it was sweller than swell. Click a link in an e-mail on the right  monitor and watch it appear in the browser on the left monitor. Besides watching  my productivity increase (I say that for you business types), it felt wildly  cool seeing two screens at once.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t realize, I like  cool things. <\/p>\n<p>But my gut said, &quot;If two&#8217;s  good, three&#8217;s got to be better.&quot; It is.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because with three, I&#8217;m on  the middle screen, writing in Word, doing research in a browser on another  screen, and trying out the app I&#8217;m reviewing in on the third window. Or if  Judy&#8217;s not around, watching a movie.<br \/>\n  &nbsp;<br \/>\n  Once you get used to spending  money for the equipment, believe me, adding a second, third, or even fourth  screen isn&#8217;t difficult. <\/p>\n<p>Okay, that&#8217;s the setup. Here&#8217;s  how to do it. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a name=\"the\" id=\"the\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a>The Nuts, Bolts, and Details<\/strong><br \/>\n  In less time than it takes for  your system to boot up, you can install a second or third monitor. (Actually,  you can string together as many as six of them; more in a sec.)<\/p>\n<p>Most PCs have video adapters &#8212; either  built into the motherboard, or a separate video adapter add-in card &#8212; and &nbsp;have two monitor ports. The ports are  generally two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datapro.net\/techinfo\/dvi_info.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">DVI<\/a> or VGA connectors, or maybe one of each. (Of course, if you&#8217;re on the forefront  of technology, you probably have the even better HDMI; I&#8217;m jealous.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bassfiles.net\/videoconnector.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" width=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>VGA and DVI ports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So adding a second monitor is  straightforward: Turn off your PC, connect the cable that comes with the  monitor to the second port on the video adapter, and boot. XP and Win 7 will  spot the new monitor and talk you through the setup steps. Microsoft has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsxp\/using\/setup\/hwandprograms\/monitors.mspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">tutorial<\/a> that explains how it works.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m thinking that many of you  don&#8217;t want to crawl under the desk with all the dust and schmutz to find the  second video adapter port. So I have an alternative, a nifty one, too. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aweber.com\/archive\/techbite\/1qZIa\/h\/Two_Monitors_Heck_Make_it_Three_.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Steve&#8217;s article continued here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stevewp.jpg\" alt=\"steveb\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7167 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Steve Bass<\/p>\n<p>Listen to this concession: &#8220;Okay, yes, once you&#8217;ve used a two-monitor setup, going back to a single monitor sucks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That from my wife who last year resisted using a second monitor. It&#8217;s so darn quaint when she admits she&#8217;s wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Judy found that out when I brought home a friend&#8217;s PC for repair, needed a monitor, and borrowed hers. (First rule of computing: Use someone else&#8217;s equipment whenever possible.)<\/p>\n<p>The repair was taking longer than I expected &#8212; funny how computers do that to you &#8212; and, my pobrecita was feeling deprived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[1624,1625,1626,1627,1121,1628,127,278,1629,1630],"class_list":["post-18240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-techbite","tag-boot","tag-dvi","tag-nuts-bolts","tag-pobrecita","tag-port","tag-productivity-increase","tag-screen","tag-steve-bass","tag-two-screens","tag-vga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TechBite: Two Monitors? 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