Many are those who today carry out a multitude of tasks of the most diverse nature from their computer equipment, hence they need certain functionalities. Furthermore, we should not overlook the fact that the computers we use in our daily work are often our leisure center as well. Thus, we use them to spend the afternoon once we have finished the workday.

Therefore, at this point and as many of you already know, we need advanced systems and programs that allow us to squeeze the most of the PC. Here, office solutions, design , photographic treatment or video reproduction come into play. This will allow us to use the equipment in all kinds of environments, in the best way.

Having commented this, in these specific lines we are going to talk about a use that is becoming more widespread, we are referring to the use of two screens simultaneously. As you can imagine, we are referring to the use of several screens connected to the same equipment, and operating simultaneously.

Advantages of using multiple screens in Windows

And is that currently many users have two screens on their computers to try to increase their performance in front of the team. This, among other advantages, allows them to work with a much larger desktop, with multiple applications running at the same time, which directly affects productivity. In the same way, they will be able to copy information from a window much faster and more effectively, or to run programs and perform tests on several windows simultaneously.

The truth is that the utilities and advantages of using multiple screens in Windows are infinite, everything will depend on the imagination we give you. And it is always going to be a great advantage to be able to work with multiple windows of different applications, without having to go changing from one to another in order to have it in view. But of course, somehow we will have to manage the work with both elements, something that we achieve from the Windows Settings application, as we will see.

Another of the most common uses that are usually made when working with two screens simultaneously, is to separate the professional from the domestic. With this what we mean is that you can use one as the main one to work with Office , for example, and another to be able to read our social networks and similar applications. Well, in order to manage the operation of both devices independently, Windows tries to make things much easier for us.

How to use different backgrounds and resolutions in Windows monitors

Serve as an example that, as it is easy to imagine, in most cases here, both screens are not going to be the same. By this we mean that they can be of different sizes, or equally support different resolutions . In addition, many of these users choose to use different wallpapers to avoid confusion.

What’s more, sometimes we will even need to make changes to use different resolutions. This is why we will show you below how to set different wallpapers and resolutions for each monitor in Windows 10 . As we mentioned before, this is something that we are going to be able to carry out from the versatile Windows Settings application. We access it through the Win + I key combination.

Use different resolutions on both screens

As we mentioned before, it is very likely that both monitors are not the same size or support the same resolutions, but this is not a problem. At the same time, it may be the case that, for whatever reason, we need to use different resolutions on both devices, all depending on the type of work to be carried out.

Therefore it is very frequent that when using two monitors in Windows, we have to establish different resolutions. To do this, from Windows 10 Settings, we access the System option.

Here, in the Multiple screens section, we can choose Extend these screens from the drop-down list that appears, for example.

After that, at the top of this section, we will see a graph where both connected devices are clearly distinguished and separated by 1 and 2 in large.

Well, in order to establish their corresponding resolutions, we only have to click on each one and go down a little in this section. Thus, we will see that another section appears, in this case called Screen resolution, where we will see that the resolutions supported by the device selected at that time appear in a drop-down list. Then we just have to choose the appropriate option, choose the other screen at the top, and repeat the process.

Set different backgrounds on the two screens

Keep in mind that Windows 10 allows us to set different wallpapers. All this we are going to be able to do to clearly distinguish both work desks, also without the need to resort to external applications . Well, for this we return to the main Settings screen, and in this case we opt for Personalization. Once there, we select the option called Background that is located on the left side of the window.

Here the option that interests us the most in this case and which could be the most comfortable and effective, is to use the Presentation mode, in the section also called Background on the right panel. We say it is the most comfortable, because this way we will have the opportunity to choose a folder with several wallpapers that will be changed automatically. This is something we carry out just by clicking on the Browse button to choose that disk folder.

In this way and if we are working in Extended mode with the two screens, as is the most common and we showed you earlier, Windows 10 will be in charge of changing the backgrounds. This means that at all times we will have different funds, among those of the presentation, in order to well distinguish the two desks from the screens.