Set up your monitors however you’d like on this screen, then click “Apply.” It’s possible to arrange them in vertical rows or horizontal columns, anchored at the corners or “floating” on the sides for more precision. This space isn’t accessible in Windows itself-you can’t move your mouse cursor or applications there-but it’s important to think about it for the purpose of managing the wallpaper. Note how the “empty” space appears wherever the larger monitor extends past the smaller one. For example, here’s how it looks with the secondary monitor on the lower-right side:Īnd here’s the same setup with the secondary monitor on the upper-left side: The wallpaper will “stop” at any edges that extend past the usable space. You can move the monitors around to make them match your desk’s setup. My setup uses two monitors, with one being slightly higher resolution than the other. Here, you can see the relative position of the monitors in the virtual space of the desktop. To do this, right-click an empty area on your desktop and click “Screen resolution.” You’ll be greeted with something like the following screen. You can adjust the position and spacing of the monitors’ virtual location on the Display Settings screen. Windows treats all the monitors on your desktop as one combined space, at least in terms of the wallpaper. Paint, Microsoft’s pack-in tool for Windows, isn’t really complex enough to handle the task you’ll want something like GIMP, Paint.NET, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, or Corel Paintshop Pro. To do this, you’ll need some kind of image editor. In order to show a different wallpaper on each monitor, you need to trick Windows and merge your two wallpapers into one big image file. If you want something a bit more automated (that requires extra software), or you want to rotate through many wallpapers on your two monitors, skip to the end, where we’ll discuss third-party options. First, we’ll look at the manual way to make your own multi-monitor wallpaper.
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