Gadgetory

and it's time for an impromptu and unexpected blog video so I actually had someone send me a really interesting question and so you know because someone sent me an interesting question I figured I'd better do something with it they asked me if I'm running Windows 8 and I have one touchscreen monitor and one non touchscreen monitor what happens if I want to have something like a game running in full screen on my non touchscreen monitor and I'd only be doing something like say for example browsing the internet on my oh whoops habit right just sec on my touchscreen monitor how does that work can I have a full screen application running over here while I'm you know browsing the entertainment news about Liam being caught flirting with a mysterious woman or whatever else is going on so what happened was I set up the touch screen monitor and I ran into a very strange problem check this out guys I take my hdmi cable do-do-do-do-do when I plug it into my touchscreen monitor all right normal things happen you got your sort of your monitors and your whatnots and your all that good stuff so watch this stuff oh okay that worked right right right okay I'm about to show you what's what sort of weird about it so if I pressed Internet Explorer and it worked then what happens is I try to it's working shoot funny story now that I fixed it I actually can't replicate the problem because I've fixed it already but I'm going to explain what happened so I had my test bench running right here I added a touch screen monitor to use as a secondary monitor to test what that's what that Twitter follower had asked me about okay so I plugged in my HDMI connector on wood okay cool now I'm ready to go so I immediately started using the left monitor as a touch screen okay I'll launch I'll launch Internet Explorer and then I learned okay now close Internet Explorer what would actually happen was because the BenQ monitor was my primary monitor my touch inputs here we're registering over here so even though these icons are in the left corner of the BenQ if I went like this in the corner of the Acer would open up this folder right here so I kind of like oh this is stupid so then by going into display options and back here I can show you guys what I'm doing because I've got my fancy dual camera set up here so by going into display options I was able to change the Acer to my main display this immediately fix the problem because what it did was it made it so that now I could touch on here it would work so I was like okay now it's all fixed so no big deal so I'll just go back and I'll change to the van cubing my main display because this is my gaming display this is my 120 Hertz panel that did not fix the problem the problem ended up being caused by some weird setting within the control house so I'll show you guys where that is all you got to do is open up your control panel and then search or tablet go to tablet PC settings then you're going to want to change the monitor I've actually you click setup and then you end up with a little thing that looks like this touch the screen to identify it as the touch screen done now if you actually go through and do things like calibrating it or whatever else you want to do this fixed it so permanently that I'm not even able to demo the issue for you so there you have it thank you for checking out this impromptu - tech tips episode on how to configure a secondary monitor as a touchscreen this will be most useful for notebook users because they might not have a touchscreen notebook and they might want to add a secondary touchscreen or desktop users who have a primary display that they're already quite pleased with and I'm sorry for the technical difficulties on my switcher here but I'll get banging on this at some point