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hey guys what's up today I'm going to be doing something pretty cool a lot of should help a lot basically I'm going to show you guys how to hook up an external monitor to your laptops you have a dual screen setup for now I'm using this just old CRT monitor but that's really matter it can be flat screen or it could be one of these old ones all it matters that you can get the correct setup another cool thing is it this lot of time does and you need to cost any money it depends if you I mean if you have an old monitor most of you guys will I have an old monitor I mean it can be from your desktop or whatever but basically all you need is an old monitor and usually not a little time it's usually your set so man let's go I can get started okay so it's really really simple I'm going to show you guys how to do it hardware wise I'm going to show you guys how to do it software wise setting up on the computer for this example I'm using my gateway laptop I'm going to be using this old eMachines mod now it doesn't matter like I said you can do a lot of different ways on one general rule of thumb is just take a look at the connection that you unplug from your desktop this is a VGA in my case which is probably going to be the most common there are also a couple others though like HDMI and DisplayPort there's a couple different ones one general rule of thumb because I can't show you guys everything is it take a look at the connection so take a good look at it and go look at your computer if it looks like it matches plug it in and see what happens I mean it kind of sounds kind of stupid but you know I mean there's no harm in trying it I mean don't be afraid now something's going to explode so I'm using VGA which is like I said probably the most common so if you take a look this is a VGA the tells VGA it's going to be blue and I'll show you it's going to be blue on the computer - then you're going to say it's going to be taller on top compared to on bottom and it's going to have quite a few pins inside okay so this just was plucked this is just take this and you just plug this plugs right into the back this was normally just plugged into the back of the desktop but you can plug into to your laptop so now you need to just take a look on your computer down and from in my case we have VGA which is right there so you see there it's blue and it has the connectors so it's really simple so all you got to do and make sure that it's plugged in obviously then take the VGA just around do you guys make sure because it is like I said TomTom so I could take a minute but like to see it right just plug it in now they've scrambled the black and now in a minute once this one's up like is that it's an old mug it will go ahead and show you guys there we go and you can see here there's my wallpaper here and here so now that's it that's the hardware connection is done your computer will be able to automatically handle a lot of the general stuff and as you can see here I'm moving my mouse is over here on the right and that's here over here on the left so I've got it set up but now you should go ahead and show you guys how to get it set up physically on the computer okay so now this is my main screen now it's going to be very simple to hook it up now all you have to do is just this is on Vista but it works pretty much the same on any kind of Windows it's basically just right-click and on your desktop and come down to personalize okay now you can see all the things go down to the very bottom you'll see display settings go and hit that okay so now you take a look at this now automatically it will have it set up but it might not quite be right so sometimes like usually it will be mirrored now when I say mirrored basically it's this desktop and it's identical so it's basically mirrored on the other monitor sometimes that might be helpful for let's say you're doing a presentation and you have you know your laptop and you have your other monitor turn to face the face people but usually you're going to want it to basically be a second screen so you know you can come across and drag Windows in between etc basically just give you more screen space so basically you'll see that the number one display the primary is going to be your laptop screen did you click the second one that's going to come to the second now you want to make sure that extend the desktop on to this monitor make sure that's checked okay so once that's checked you could take a look at the resolution um most of the time it will automatically recognize and set the resolution so in my monitors case it's 1024 by 768 if it looks odd you go ahead and drag it up and down and customize it and if you want you can go ahead try that if it looks a little odd but besides that that's just about it go ahead once you finish doing all everything go ahead and hit apply then go ahead and Excel and then now let me show you guys a little bit about what the benefits of having a second monitor is okay so once you have your second monitor set up we have the proper settings and do know that that line is just because it's no monitors not is it yes you can't see that but anyway so now you got to go ahead and set some stuff up so let me just show you a couple of things so if you see up on the top right you see that I have my CPU monitor and I have a little launcher so it's real simple save space let's go ahead and move it over here so let's go ahead and you know put on the top right again let's go grab my launcher and you see here show you guys had right across if I can grab it and just drag it right across and just kind of get most out of there so that's one thing so you can have like widgets and stuff but another thing is like let's say you know you want listen to music and you want to you know surf the web to fly that so let's go ahead I've got a couple windows up already so have iTunes so let's say I'm listening to iTunes but I don't I don't want to do that because I'm doing something important on the other so just going to kind of take it down and just drag across then we can go ahead and maximize it right so we can be looking at music and you know watching a movie water on this screen and come over here and then I open up like a web browser so let's say I'm you know reading you know just reading some random post or whatever and now I look over on the right now I actually want to switch songs I mean there's all kinds I mean you're not limited whatsoever it's pretty much anything that you want take it from this put it on this and as you saw it's very simple to drag it this is especially useful when let's say you're researching and you're doing a report or you're typing something so let's say you know on this one you could have like you know Wikipedia up reading about something and over here you can be typing and especially with Windows 7 because the windows will you can touch the windows and make them like half sized and stuff which is really quite handy anyway guys that was just a pretty simple deal on how to set up a second monitor for your laptop you know you'd be surprised there's a lot of like older style monitors like this that you know just sitting around you know they might be collecting dust in your closet or maybe still hooked up to your desktop just unplug them take a look if you have one I mean it's really simple plug it into your laptop and you're good to go anyway thanks for watching