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You just need a 2nd monitor where you can drag stuff from your main monitor?

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Wait do you want two separate systems?

Or do you just want to plug in another monitor?

 

Providing you have a HDMI header just plug it in.

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Wait do you want two separate systems?

Or do you just want to plug in another monitor?

 

Providing you have a HDMI header just plug it in.

I want to plug in another monitor, but don't want to duplicate my current screen to the other monitor I want to use the other monitor for something else

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I want to plug in another monitor, but don't want to duplicate my current screen to the other monitor I want to use the other monitor for something else

You can use that monitor on the same computer/os as your other one. You have options to just expand your desktop to the second monitor, pretty much making it one big monitor. You can do one thing on the right one, and one thing on the left one. You won't have duplication.

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I want to plug in another monitor, but don't want to duplicate my current screen to the other monitor I want to use the other monitor for something else

Plug the monitor in, right-click on the desktop and go to Display Settings, and put the monitors in Extended Desktop mode.

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You can use that monitor on the same computer/os as your other one. You have options to just expand your desktop to the second monitor, pretty much making it one big monitor. You can do one thing on the right one, and one thing on the left one. You won't have duplication.

Ok got it, but the second monitor is going to be a tv in another room which I will use to stream something form a website to my parents, Would I be able to have separate sound (Example: Me watching my YouTube videos and them watching the stream)

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What you're going to want to do is just get a monitor and HDMI cord (or HDMI converter depending on what your display uses. For example, my second uses DVI-D, but I only have an HDMI port on my laptop so I got a HDMI male to DVI-D male adapter off of Amazon for about $5 USD). From there you can extend the display through either Windows or the Intel graphics control panel is your cpu is Intel, of course. You can find the extend display options on Windows 10 by going to Settings>System>Display. From there you can choose the "extend these displays" option and get something going.

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Ok got it, but the second monitor is going to be a tv in another room which I will use to stream something form a website to my parents, Would I be able to have separate sound (Example: Me watching my YouTube videos and them watching the stream)

I don't think that is possible unfortunately

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Plug the monitor in, right-click on the desktop and go to Display Settings, and put the monitors in Extended Desktop mode.

 

Plug your monitor in and press Windows + P and choose Expand and then you can drag windows it to the other monitor. If its on the false side, then dig into the graphic settings and drag it to the right position.

ok, the other monitor is going to be a tv in the living room that I will use to show a stream to my parents, How would I be able to have separate sound (Sound for me to watch YouTube videos and sound for them to watch the stream)?

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What you're going to want to do is just get a monitor and HDMI cord (or HDMI converter depending on what your display uses. For example, my second uses DVI-D, but I only have an HDMI port on my laptop so I got a HDMI male to DVI-D male adapter off of Amazon for about $5 USD). From there you can extend the display through either Windows or the Intel graphics control panel is your cpu is Intel, of course. You can find the extend display options on Windows 10 by going to Settings>System>Display. From there you can choose the "extend these displays" option and get something going.

ok I got that, but the other monitor is going to be a tv in the living room that I will use to show a stream to my parents, would I be able to have separate sound (Sound for me to watch YouTube videos and sound for them to watch the stream)?

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ok, the other monitor is going to be a tv in the living room that I will use to show a stream to my parents, How would I be able to have separate sound (Sound for me to watch YouTube videos and sound for them to watch the stream)?

http://superuser.com/questions/258969/routing-applications-sound-to-different-sound-device-windows

So today i delved deeper into my video player settings. i use VLC player (im sure some other players will be able to do the same thing) and it has advanced audio settings neatly hidden away. in VLC player you go to: Preferences Audio preferences change the radio button on bottom left from 'simple' to 'all' open dropdown for output modules choose direct x in the dropdown menu choose your tv (you must have HDMI linked to pc at this point for it to show in the list)

once you quit the film and reload, the sound comes from the TV whilst leaving anything else you do coming from the default you would normally use from the PC.

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I think what you may be wanting to do is basically have one OS running and outputting to one display and another OS running and outputting to the other display, right?  Basically like the 2 gamers 1 PC video?  If that's the case you would want to go about it a similar way, perhaps in a simpler fashion though just running a VM on your host OS

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ok I got that, but the other monitor is going to be a tv in the living room that I will use to show a stream to my parents, would I be able to have separate sound (Sound for me to watch YouTube videos and sound for them to watch the stream)?

 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Probably, but I've never had to try.

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I think what you may be wanting to do is basically have one OS running and outputting to one display and another OS running and outputting to the other display, right?  Basically like the 2 gamers 1 PC video?  If that's the case you would want to go about it a similar way, perhaps in a simpler fashion though just running a VM on your host OS

yeah that's what i want to do. I will try to use what glenwing said and if it doesn't work i will use your suggestion

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