Hello everyone, welcome to another video from windowsloves.com and today
i'm going to show you how you can manage your multiple monitors
in a remote desktop connection settings. so let's get started
so this video is for users who have multiple monitors and want to use
only few of them or want to use one monitor for
the local pc and the rest of the monitors for remote desktop connections.
so for example if you have three monitors and if you want to use
just two for remote desktop connection and
leave the other one for your spotify playlist or if you want to watch a
youtube video while you are connected remotely to a
remote computer. so this can be used in a different way
i'm going to show you how you can manage it yourself depending on what
your needs are. before we start what we need to find out
is how your system detects your monitors. so at the moment i have three monitors
set up, so i'm gonna see how my system determines which monitor
is which . So first start run or just click
on type here to search and type in run
and type in ms
tsc space slash l enter.
and now as you can see it says remote desktop connections and there's three
different monitors and there's different informations with the important part
is the numbers at the front of this display.so depending on how many
monitors you have you will see all of them listed here and
there will be a number in front of them let's see how these numbers make sense
to us. so leaving that open right click on a
display and click on display settings,
and as you can see i have three monitors here
but they're numbered in a different way so i've got number one number two and
number three. all right the first thing you gotta know
is which monitors you would like to use for the remote
desktop connection and which ones you would not
or which ones you would like to use for youtube video or just for your spotify
playlist or something. uh just for your local computer so to do
that what you can do is click on identify so what will happen now is you
will see a number on the left hand corner of all the
monitors all the displays you have connected
depending on that you can choose which ones you would like to use
for what purposes all right i'm going to click on identify
so number two would be the monitor that i would not want to use
for the remote desktop connection all right so how would i
not select number two we're gonna see that
later so let's see how these numbers make sense
the way to find out which monitors are which are the lowest number here
will be the lowest number here as well so what happens is number zero is number
one number one is number two and number
three is obvious number three but sometimes you might have a different
number here it might be four it might be ten but the way the numbers
are increasing here is the same way you can find out which
monitors are connected to which monitors all right
so number zero is number one for me number one is number two and number
three is offices number three and what i wanna
do is i wanna skip number two and only use number one and
number three for the remote desktop connections
alright so once you've got that noted down click on ok
close that go back to search or run or you can just hit windows and r
and type in mstsc without anything at the end click on
enter
so now you enter the ip address or the computer name that you would like to
connect for me it's 192.168.2.129 um can be a computer name or an ip
address don't click connect yet click on show
options go to display click on use all my
monitors for the remote session go back to general again and click on
save and click save as and save this
as a remote texture file an rdp file anywhere that you can remember i'm just
going to save in desktop rename it as remote connection
i'll save that and now i can close this now opened notepad
go on file open go to where the file was saved previously
click on all files and you should see the remote desktop connection file there
double click on it so now you will see different textures
scroll to the top and enter and type in selected
monitors column s column so now you would put in
the monitors that you like this remote connection to
use so for me it was number zero and number three
so now i'm going to go ahead and file and save it
close this open the remote desktop connection
click on connect enter the password
so once that's done the remote desktop connection we only use
the monitors that you have selected so now you can play around
and try to find out the exact setup that you
like and if you have two monitors you can just
use one monitor for the local pc the other monitor for
your remote desktop connection all right the first the only thing you got to keep
in mind is for you to be able to use multiple
monitors the remote computer must have a supported version of windows 10 at
least windows 10 pro so if you have a windows 10 home edition
if you're if you're on a remote connection it will not allow you
to use multiple monitors every modus definition settings so
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