8 Tips To Improve Your Dual Monitor Setup

So, you figured out you can boost your productivity by having a dual monitor setup.

Or maybe you already set up dual monitors and are looking for tips and tricks to several third-party tools that can improve the setup and ultimately boost your productivity.

Either way, this post is just for you and will assist you with enhancing the dual monitor setup.

Are you ready to indulge in a post-boast with a secret sauce of tips?

Let’s get into it.

Why Use Dual Monitors?

The quick answer: dual monitors boost your productivity.

How?

1. Allow opening multiple windows at a time.
2. Helps with proofreading
3. Writing essays as you research
4. Web research
5. Video editing

It’s challenging to figure out the best monitor as many good and cheap monitors are on the market to choose from.

8 Tips To Improve Your Dual Monitor Setup

1. Master Shortcuts

On dual monitors, it’s key to figure out whether you use

It is much easier to view tons of windows at once when using multiple monitors-especially when compared with ultrawide and superwide monitors. Using the mouse to drag and resize your windows is time-consuming and arduous.

Therefore, Windows 10 offers a few shortcuts that can help, including:

1. By pressing Windows+Left or Windows+Right, you can snap the active window to the left or right side of the current monitor. It can be moved between monitors or snapped back to its original position by pressing the keys again.
2. Win+Up/Win+Down maximizes or minimizes the currently selected window. Changing the size of the window will also resize it from its snapped position.
3. Shift+Win+Left and Shift+Win+Right allow you to move the active window between monitors without snapping it to the edge.
4. Using Shift+Win+Up, you can maximize the window vertically, which is especially useful if your secondary display lacks a taskbar.
5. By pressing Win+Home, you can minimize all windows except the one you are working on. Click it again to restore all windows.
6. Most of these shortcuts work even if you have one monitor, but the more monitors you have, the more useful they become.

2. Make the display match

In a dual monitor setup, it is crucial to match the display. This would be best if both of the displays were the same.

Once you connect both monitors, Windows should automatically extend your desktop horizontally once they are both plugged in.

If your monitors are the same make and model, you may want to skip this step. It takes just a few seconds to align each display’s stand, and you’re ready to go.

However, you may need to put in a bit of effort if you have two different monitors. You may be using two monitors side by side or using one 4K monitor and the other 1080p. Either way, you’ll get some weird behavior, but it’s easy to fix.

3. Adjust taskbar

In a dual monitor setup, it’s essential to adjust the taskbar. As a default, Windows 10 extends the taskbar across both displays when you have dual monitors.

It’s a handy feature, though, but customizing it a bit further would make it way better.

To access taskbar settings, go to windows> settings> taskbar settings> scroll down to the bottom and select the multiple display section.

Now, if you select the first drop-down menu under the show taskbar button, you’d find multiple options. I personally use the first option that shows the taskbar on dual monitors.

I like this because it removes barriers to centralizing all the shortcuts.

Although, you can customize preferred icons for each display. This will allow you to choose icons individually.

4. Make monitors stunning using wallpapers

You can choose and set personalized wallpapers for each monitor.

Stunning wallpapers and backgrounds won’t make you productive, but indeed it’s a great thing to personalize computers. You can find and set wallpapers and backgrounds that reflect your personality and choice.

So definitely, you can make use of this feature in your dual monitor setup.

ProTip: Find out the widest of the wallpapers since wide wallpapers look so beautiful on devices.

If you have a collection of an array of beautiful wallpapers, you can personalize that by right-clicking the desktop and choosing personalization.

Here’s a good collection of multi-display wallpaper.

5. Better manage your windows on dual monitors

Multiple display management can be tricky, but there are several third-party tools that can make your multi-display life easier. Even though macOS magnets cost $1, they are invaluable for snapping windows to the edges and corners of your display, regardless of how many monitors you have.

With DisplayFusion, you can have greater control over the way windows are managed across multiple screens, such as snapping apps to the edges of the screen and launching specific apps on specific screens if necessary.

DisplayFusion offers a lot more than just that. The taskbar can be stretched across multiple displays, wallpapers set on different displays, and more. DisplayFusion is free to use in its basic version, but if you want all the features we mentioned, you need to pay $30.

6. Become a pro writer

Yes, you can get better leverage a dual monitor setup. How?

Well, the key to writing better and standing out in the crowd is “well research.”

And, here, dual monitors are a lifesaver.

The Internet is a huge resource and gateway to immense knowledge. Finding information on the internet is not a big deal, thanks to lots of massive search engines. That sounds so good.

Well, stop right there!

Although finding information on the internet is easy, finding appropriate information is really a big deal.

It takes enormous research, analysis, and vetting of information.

And, when you go to research and write together side-by-side, it consumes lots of time as it takes changing tabs or opening and re-opening word processor software.

If you use one of the displays to open the writing software and another for researching, you can write tenfold faster.

7. Drastically maximize your video editing efforts

Is that really, and if so, how do dual monitors boost video editing efforts?

To answer, let me answer why dual monitors can help in video editing?

The software used in video editing usually takes the entire space of the monitors to run appropriately and access full features of it.

Because video editing takes a lot of things to do, for example, you need to cut, trim and add videos and audios, edit videos and audios, and add visual and text over the videos.

You see, that should take lots of space, and when the display size is small, the editor finds it challenging to access all the functionalities seamlessly.

Here dual monitors would give you more space to edit and organize with ease.

8. Use wireless connections for second screens

Is that possible?

Yes, that is possible. A simple trick would get the job done.

It’s duck soup to connect a second monitor wirelessly using Chromecast or similar devices.

The essential requirement of it has an HDMI port in your laptop or PC. And, the best part is that from old school to all the way to modern lightweight computers (even TVs nowadays) got HDMI  ports.

And, based on my research, probably Airparrot will let you flawlessly connect your secondary monitor.

Key Takeaways

If you are a researcher, writer, or content creator, a dual monitor setup will boost your productivity instantly.

But, you won’t get the most out of it if you don’t know tips and tricks to improve dual monitor setup.

And, this article is dedicated to revealing all those secret sauces with you. I hope the tips helped you. Nevertheless, if you got any questions, comment below.