
Easy to use: Allows for resizing animated gifs, which isn’t as easy as with static images. Quality of life: On the fly image resizing when experimenting with the perfect background layout. His classes are available in Phoenix, AZ and online with RemoteLive™. Mike Danseglio teaches IT Security Training, Windows, System Center and Windows Server 2012 classes at Interface Technical Training. That’s all it takes! I hope you enjoy this feature. Span looks amazing if the picture is exactly the right size so there’s no cropping or scaling (get it?! Dragons, scaling?!?!) I browse to my awesome dragon picture and click OK.įinally, under Choose a fit, I click Span. For Background I choose Picture and then click Browse. Then I launch the Settings app and click Personalization. Now Google Images narrows my choices to dragon themed images that are exactly the right size for my background. I use the cumulative resolution from earlier of 3840×1080. Lots of dragons to choose from! But I want dragon that will look great across two monitors. I search for the background theme I’m interested in. This makes my cumulative resolution 3840×1080. For example, I have two 1920×1080 monitors sitting side-by-side, so I add the width of the monitors together but use the height of one.
Here’s how I recommend that you do it:įirst, I figure out my cumulative monitor resolution.
There are a couple of tricks that make it look great. Luckily Windows 10 has built-in support for using a single background image across multiple monitors. I prefer to have one background image that spans both monitors, but some versions of Windows have not supported this configuration. One source of frustration has been the desktop background image. I love having two monitors, it really helps improve productivity when I’m writing, researching, or editing content. It’s even got some nice user interface improvements, one of which I want to describe in this article.
It’s fast, it runs all of my old apps (even my retro games!), and it has tons of security improvements. Windows 10 is quite an impressive operating system.