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click “Keep changes.” (If you don’t click anything, Windows switches back

to the original configuration after 15 seconds.)

Tip
If you click the “Display adapter properties” link, you’re offered a collection of technical settings
for your particular monitor model. Depending on your video driver, there may be tab controls here
that adjust the refresh rate to eliminate flicker, install an updated adapter or monitor driver, and so
on. In general, you rarely need to adjust these controls—except on the advice of a consultant or
help-line technician.

Life with Multiple Screens

Once you’ve hooked up a second monitor, there are more tips than ever:

You can drag a window from screen to screen with the mouse,
even if it’s a split-screen, “snapped” app. (Use the top edge of the
app’s screen as a handle.)

You can make a window cycle through the left, center, and right
positions on each screen by repeatedly pressing and the or

keys.

For example, suppose a window is now floating in the middle of
Screen 1. Pressing + repeatedly first snaps it to the right edge

of Screen 1, then snaps it to the left edge of Screen 2, then releases
it to the middle of Screen 2, and finally snaps it against the right
edge of Screen 2. And now, if you press + yet again, that same

window “wraps” around to become snapped against the left edge
of Screen 1. It makes more sense when you try it.

The system tray and Action Center appear only on the main

monitor.

You can’t pin different items onto each screen’s taskbar.

You can give each screen its own desktop background. On the
Background settings screen (Figure 4-1), right-click the thumbnail