Ed Bott - Windows 10 Support Secrets

81 CHAPTER 6 | Taking charge of hardware And finally, the keyboard shortcut you need to memorize if you occasionally connect a second, external display to your laptop is Windows key+P. That opens the Project flyout on the right side of the screen, as shown in the screenshot that follows, giving you four options for how to arrange objects on the screen. If your goal is to have a bigger workspace, choose Extend. Use Duplicate if you’re delivering a presentation on an external display. Second Screen Only is the correct choice when you’re using a laptop PC with a large external monitor and you don’t need the laptop’s small built-in display. With Windows 10, you also can connect to a wireless display using technology called Miracast or screen mirroring. New in the Anniversary Update, version 1607, is the capability to wirelessly project content from one Windows 10 PC to another. (You can also project from a phone running Windows 10 Mobile.) This feature isn’t turned on by default. To configure your PC so that other PCs can project to it over a wireless network, go to Settings > System > Projecting To This PC. Figure 6-4 shows the full array of available settings on a PC with a wireless adapter.