The tablet at home or in the office can become super useful if it is used as a second PC screen. You can extend the desktop so that Windows thinks there is a single large monitor, which can be used in parallel with the main monitor.
This configuration can be done with two monitors or even with a laptop or tablet.
In this way you can use only one PC, the fixed one at home, connected both to the normal monitor, and to that of the laptop or Android tablet or iPad positioned next to it.
Using two screens is really advantageous when working on the computer, to keep two programs open together in full screen, maybe Chrome on one side and Word on the other, without having to divide the space in two or do up and down with windows.
Using the screen of the tablet or laptop as a second monitor of another computer has become super simple but thanks to a special, precious and free program that allows you to extend the Windows PC desktop on a laptop monitor or even on a laptop screen. Android tablet using the home wifi network.
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The program to use is SpaceDesk, the only completely free (at least for now) of this type.
Spacedesk works on every Windows PC (including Windows 10) to extend or duplicate a PC screen on other computers on the network, including Android tablets (and in the future also for iPad). On the main PC you have to install, in the download page, the Spacedesk driver which is different depending on whether you use Windows 32 bit or 64 bit and if you use Windows 10 or Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. On the laptop that you want to use as a second screen you can install the viewer program, always from the download page, scrolling down.
When the client is installed and started it is possible to adjust some settings (such as automatic reconnection and full screen streaming) and then connect to the main computer from the File menu.
If you want to use an Android tablet (a Samsung, Asus or Huawei) as a second PC monitor, you need to install the Spacedesk app on the tablet .
The viewer program or the Android app is able to automatically find the spacedesk server installed on the main computer.
If this is not the case, you must indicate the IP address of the server, that is of the PC where the Spacedesk driver has been installed.
Remember that PC and tablet must be connected to the same wifi network.
At this point, the client computer, i.e. the Windows laptop or the Android tablet, can function in order to extend the desktop of the main PC or duplicate what is seen on the monitor. You can then, in the Control Panel> Display (or in Windows 10 in Settings> System> Display), configure the resolution of the second monitor and other settings exactly as it would be connected by cable.
This program allows you to connect as many computers as you want and also extend the monitor on two other PCs, but you can also use it to extend the computer monitor on the screen of an Android smartphone as well as on a tablet .
While waiting for the iOS app, Spacedesk also provides a way to extend the Windows PC screen to an iPad or iPhone or other compute r (such as the Chromebook and the Mac), via an HTML5 web app, on the // spacedesk website. ph / html5viewer /.
SpaceDesk can also be used with one of those programs already described in the guide to use the same mouse and keyboard on two different computers .
If you want a better program to use to extend your computer monitor in wifi you can install Synergy, a tool with automatic configuration and guided procedure that costs, in its basic version, 10 $.
Alternatively, InputDirector also works well, this time free, although less beautiful in its interface and therefore a little less simple to configure the settings of the two computers. If there were difficulties, you can read the guide online.
Another possibility to connect two monitors to a computer in wifi is ShareMouse, easy to use and full of features. ShareMouse is free for personal use with the limit of two monitors. For more advanced uses it is possible to buy the professional use license which supports up to 19 monitors / computers connected in the network.
Finally, Mouse Without Borders is a Microsoft program for controlling up to 4 computers with the same mouse.
A Mac program to use any computer or tablet (Android or iPad) as a second monitor via the Wifi network or via Ethernet is AirDisplay, which you can try for free in a trial version and which must then be purchased for 20 Dollars.
