Windows 10 Move Action Center To Second Monitor

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You can double your Windows 10 desktop space by adding a second monitor or other video device. Have you been blessed with an extra computer screen, perhaps a leftover from a deceased PC? Connect it to your PC or tablet, and you’ve doubled your Windows desktop.

Windows stretches your workspace across both computer screens. That lets you view the online encyclopedia in one computer screen while writing your term paper in the other.

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Or, if you’ve connected a projector, you can mirror your laptop’s screen with what you see on the projector. You can even connect your tablet to your widescreen TV for watching movies.

To perform these video gymnastics, your PC needs two videoports, and those ports must match the connectors on your second monitor or projector. This poses no problem if they’re less than two or three years old. Most Windows PCs, laptops, and tablets include an HDMI port for plugging in a second monitor or projector.

You may need to buy an adapter or special cable that matches the ports of both your computer and second display.

After you connect the second monitor or the projector to your computer, follow these steps on your PC:

  1. Click the Start button, choose Settings, and click the System icon.

  2. When the System page appears, click the words Advanced Display Settings in the screen’s bottom-right corner.

    The Advanced Display Settings window appears showing two monitors, side by side, as shown here. (Click the Detect button if the second computer screen doesn’t appear onscreen. You may need to turn the second monitor off, wait 30 seconds, and turn it back on again.)

    Move the onscreen monitors to match the placement of your real monitors.

  3. Drag and drop the onscreen computer screens to the right or left until they match the physical placement of the real computer screens on your desk. Then choose your main display.

    The window shows your two monitors as little onscreen squares. Not sure which square represents which monitor? Click the Identify button; Windows displays numbers on the onscreen monitors, as well as your real monitors, so you can tell which is which.

    Then, drag and drop the onscreen monitors until they match the placement of your real monitors.

    Finally, click the onscreen monitor that should display your Start button, and select the Make this My Main Display check box.

  4. Adjust the Orientation setting, if necessary, and the Multiple Displays setting.

    The Orientation drop-down list, useful mostly for swiveling monitors and docked tablets, lets you tell Windows how you want monitors rotated. Stick with the default Landscape mode; choose Portrait mode only if you’ve turned a monitor or tablet sideways, perhaps to better display reading material.

    The Multiple Displays drop-down list tells Windows how it should display your desktop across the second monitor. It offers these options, each handy for different scenarios:

    • Duplicate These Displays: This duplicates your desktop on both screens, which is helpful when you want to project an image of your desktop onto a wall or screen for presentations.

    • Extend These Displays: This stretches Windows to fit across both screens, giving you an extra-wide desktop.

    • Show only on 1: Choose this before you’re ready to show off your presentation. Then switch to Duplicate These Displays.

    • Show Only on 2: Choose this to show only the second display, which is useful when hooking up a tablet to a TV for watching movies in a dark room.

  5. Click the Apply button to save your changes.

If you move the position of your monitors, return to the first step and start over.

To adjust the screen resolution of your two monitors, on the Advanced Display Settings window click the monitor you want to change, and the Resolution drop-down list applies to that monitor alone.

If you have multiple displays or an external projector, you might find the built-in feature of Windows 10 to change the active display and the sharing mode of your current desktop useful. The feature called Project allows the user to have only the primary screen enabled, duplicate it on a second display, extend it across all displays, or use the second screen only. Here is how it can be done.

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The Project feature in Windows 10 offers the following modes:

  • PC screen only
    Only the primary display is enabled. All other connected displays will be inactive. Once you connect a wireless projector, this option changes its name to Disconnect.
  • Duplicate
    Duplicates the primary display on the second display.
  • Extend
    Your desktop will be extended across the all connected monitors.
  • Second screen only
    The primary display will be disabled. Use this option to switch to the external display only.

You can pick the most convenient method to access the Project feature in Windows 10.

Quick Actions in the Action Center

Action Center in Windows 10 is a special pane which keeps various types of notifications and provides quick access to useful actions that can be performed with one click or tap. By default, it has a quick action button named 'Project'. It might be hidden by default:

Click the 'Expand' link to see the full set of quick actions:

There, you'll find the Project option. Click it to choose the desired mode:

Option to configure multiple displays in Settings app

It is possible to configure the multiple displays using the Settings app as follows.

  1. Open the Settings app.
  2. Go to System -> Display:
  3. On the right, set the desired mode for multiple displays using the appropriate dropdown option:

Using the DisplaySwitch.exe app

The built-in Windows utility, DisplaySwitch.exe, allows you to specify which display to use and how to use it. The application is located in the folder C:WindowsSystem32.
It is possible to use it to control the Project feature via the command line, so you can create a shortcut to any of available modes. Tip: You can try these options from the Run dialog. Open it with the Win + R shortcut and type the command specified below in the Run box.

The /internal argument is used to switch your PC to use the primary display only.

Use this command to switch to the external display only.

Duplicates the primary display.

Expands your Desktop to the secondary display.

That's it. Now you can create a shortcut with the appropriate command.

  1. Right click your Desktop and select New - Shortcut in the context menu:
  2. In the location of the item box, type or copy-paste the desired command for the mode that you want to use for multiple displays:
  3. Name your shortcut as you want and set the desired icon:

Using global hotkeys

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In Windows 10, there are shortcut keys available to open the Project feature directly. Press the Win + P shortcut keys together on the keyboard. This will open the Project flyout.

That's it.

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