and it's time for an impromptu and unexpected Blog video so I actually had
someone send me a really interesting question and uh so you know because
someone sent me an interesting question I figured I better do something with it
they asked me if I'm running Windows 8 and I have one touchscreen monitor and
one non-touchscreen monitor what happens
if I want to have something like a game running in full screen on my
non-touchscreen monitor and I want to be doing something like say for example
browsing the internet on my oh whoops
see habit right just SEC on my
touchscreen monitor how does that work can I have a full screen application
running over here while I'm you know browsing the entertainment news about
Liam being caught flirting with a mysterious woman or whatever else is
going on so what happened was I set up the touchscreen monitor and I ran into a
very strange problem check this out guys if I take my HDMI
cable and I plug it into my touchscreen
monitor all right normal things happen
you got your sort of your monitors and your whatnots and your all that good
stuff so watch this
though oh okay that worked right right right okay I'm about to show you what's
what's sort of weird about it so if I pressed Internet Explorer and it worked
then what happens is I try to oh it's working now
shoot funny story now that I fixed it I
actually can't replicate the problem because I've fixed it already but I'm
going to explain what happened so I had my test bench running right here I added
a touchscreen monitor to use as a secondary monitor to test what that uh
what that Twitter follower had asked me about okay so I plugged in my HDMI
connector and I went okay cool now I'm ready to go so so I immediately started
using the left monitor as a touch screen I went oh okay I'll
launch I'll launch Internet Explorer and
then I went okay now I'll close internet explor but what actually happened was
because the BenQ monitor was my primary monitor My Touch inputs here were
registering over here so even though these icons are in the left corner of
the Ben Q if I went like this in the corner of the Acer it would open up this
folder right here so I kind of went oh well this is stupid stupid so then by
going into display options and here I can show you guys
what I'm doing because I've got my fancy dual camera setup here so by going into
display options I was able to change the Acer to my main
display this immediately fixed the problem because what it did was it made
it so that now I could touch on here and it would work so I was like oh okay now
it's all fixed so no big deal so I'll just go back and I'll change to
the Ben Q being my main display because this is my gaming display this is my 120
HZ panel that did not fix the problem
the problem ended up being caused by some weird setting within the control
panel so I'll show you guys where that is all you got to do is open up your
control panel and then search for
tablet go to tablet PC
settings then you're going to want to
change the monitor I actually you setup
and then you end up with a little thing that looks like this touch the screen to
identify it as the touch screen done now
you have the option to go through and do things like calibrating it or whatever
else you want to do this fixed it so permanently that I'm not even able to
demo the issue for you so there you have
it thank you for checking out this impromptu lineus Tech tips episode on
how to configure a secondary monitor as a touchcreen this will be most useful
for note book users because they might
not have a touchscreen notebook and they might want to add a secondary
touchscreen or desktop users who have a primary display that they're already
quite pleased with and I'm sorry for the technical difficulties on my switcher
here but I'll get the hang of this at some
point