I'm not sure I'm reading the answers correctly. I have a laptop and want to hook up 2 monitors. I want to move stuff from 1 screen to the other
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Yes you can. If not, go to control panel, display, change display setting, identify - I can't imagine it not working unless you have an old laptop or old windows OS.
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If you pull up a document, you will see the same document on two monitors. You will not be able to move documents between monitors. That is what I wanted to do. This product will not let you do what you want to do. I thought, perhaps, I just needed to download a driver. So, I went to their website. And, their website did not work.
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I'm sorry but this is a splitter which will have monitor #1 mirror monitor #2. You want to have 2 VGA connections on your PC to extend desktop. You can also use a HDMI connection along with a VGA connection to extend.
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Yes, this should work fine, Just right click on your desktop screen of your laptop and choose graphics properties where you can select how you will use the monitor. By default I think it will just duplicate your screen, but you can change it to "extend desktop" and then even select what side of the laptop the monitor is on so the mouse will move from screen to screen correctly...
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I don't think the adapter has anything to do with this, it is dependent on your video card and/or computer. But in my case I am able to extend the desktop to my second monitor. Replicate is also an option.
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No, you would need something else to use two monitors at once. This is used for switching between two monitors that are used one at a time.
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You already have one monitor hooked up via HDMI/DVI, then probably you will have just an analog VGA port available. If that is the case then you have no choice but connect up the other monitor using the VGA port. The VGA cable should come with your monitor, so you won't need to buy an adapter or cable.
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Connect the two with an HDMI cable. Then tell laptop to go to 2nd monitor..
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Depends what ports are on your laptop. This monitor has a VGA output only. so if you dont have a vga port, then you cant use this monitor. (technically you could.. but it would cost alot for converters and it would be better just to get another monitor). So google what a vga looks like.
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Yes as previously said you would need active adapters. Not sure if you already know this but a splitter just recreates the same image on 2 screens. If you want 4 monitors displaying 2 monitors worth of images then yes that would work. If you want 4 separate images on each monitor then you need active adapters for each port.
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As the above poster said, probably not. It will allow you to add a second monitor. It's possible if your laptop has dvi, you might be able to use it simultaneously. However, sometimes the dvi is just the DisplayPort converted.
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Depends on your monitor, the newer monitors have a power plug, if it is an older monitor then you would have to purchase a power supply seperately.
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Nope. One should do you just fine. Your computer should us the existing display driver for the first one then this will drive the second monitor.
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Not with this. It is a switch. Its either one or the other. Its mostly used for TV's with only one HDMI. You can use HDMI out on a laptop and possibly VGA out but probably not for 3 separate screens. Need a decent graphics card in your PC to do that.
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Go to your control panel and look under display. If your laptop shows the option of extending your screen over multiple monitors then your laptop HAS the capability of doing so. Most laptops provide this option. However, as I've never used this device I cannot say for certain that it would work this way. I did want to correct some of the previous incorrect answers however in terms of capability.
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I'd say it has more to do with your hardware. In other words, if your computer has two monitor ports, one VGA and one DVI, then you could hook up two monitors easily, and use the respective cable for each monitor to do dual-head display. For example, my laptop only has one VGA port, but when I dock it, the docking port has two, so I can display on two monitors.
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I used this device for (2) computers, each computer had a DVI and a VGA and was using those ports for dual monitors. This device allowed me to switch between the two computers on both monitors for each. Based on that, I believe if you used the DVI on one channel, and then the VGA on the other channel, that this would work. That being said, you may be better off just getting a DVI-VGA adapter and using a cheap switch.
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Yes, you can. You don't have to use 2 monitors. For the card or cable to work properly