Teach your laptop to treat a secondary monitor as the primary display

January 17, 2014

I'm not much of a gamer, but I still play about 15 minutes of Diablo III on my notebook every day. (I figure I should finish the game just in time for Diablo IV to come out.) One annoying thing about the game—an irritation that also affects desktop programs and Windows 8 apps—is that if you've connected your notebook to a second monitor, newly opened programs still default to your primary display. If you've paired your laptop to a nice 24-inch 1080p monitor, that often means you’re squinting at your 12-inch clamshell display instead of the larger, nicer screen. Let’s fix that by making our external monitor the center of attention. To adjust our monitor settings, we’re going to need to open up the Control Panel. From the Windows 8.1 desktop, right-click the Start button—Windows 8 users should right-click the Start icon in the lower left corner—and then select “Control Panel” from the Quick Access Menu. Windows 7 users can just get at the Control Panel from the Start menu. You're looking for the Appearance and Personalization options in the Control Panel.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2089102/teach-your-laptop-to-treat-a-secondary-monitor-as-the-primary-display.html#tk.rss_howto