Windows 8 Tip - Adding a Secondary Touch Screen Monitor Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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and it's time for an impromptu and unexpected Blog video so I actually had
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someone send me a really interesting question and uh so you know because
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someone sent me an interesting question I figured I better do something with it
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they asked me if I'm running Windows 8 and I have one touchscreen monitor and
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one non-touchscreen monitor what happens
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if I want to have something like a game running in full screen on my
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non-touchscreen monitor and I want to be doing something like say for example
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browsing the internet on my oh whoops
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see habit right just SEC on my
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touchscreen monitor how does that work can I have a full screen application
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running over here while I'm you know browsing the entertainment news about
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Liam being caught flirting with a mysterious woman or whatever else is
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going on so what happened was I set up the touchscreen monitor and I ran into a
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very strange problem check this out guys if I take my HDMI
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cable and I plug it into my touchscreen
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monitor all right normal things happen
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you got your sort of your monitors and your whatnots and your all that good
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stuff so watch this
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though oh okay that worked right right right okay I'm about to show you what's
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what's sort of weird about it so if I pressed Internet Explorer and it worked
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then what happens is I try to oh it's working now
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shoot funny story now that I fixed it I
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actually can't replicate the problem because I've fixed it already but I'm
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going to explain what happened so I had my test bench running right here I added
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a touchscreen monitor to use as a secondary monitor to test what that uh
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what that Twitter follower had asked me about okay so I plugged in my HDMI
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connector and I went okay cool now I'm ready to go so so I immediately started
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using the left monitor as a touch screen I went oh okay I'll
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launch I'll launch Internet Explorer and
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then I went okay now I'll close internet explor but what actually happened was
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because the BenQ monitor was my primary monitor My Touch inputs here were
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registering over here so even though these icons are in the left corner of
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the Ben Q if I went like this in the corner of the Acer it would open up this
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folder right here so I kind of went oh well this is stupid stupid so then by
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going into display options and here I can show you guys
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what I'm doing because I've got my fancy dual camera setup here so by going into
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display options I was able to change the Acer to my main
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display this immediately fixed the problem because what it did was it made
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it so that now I could touch on here and it would work so I was like oh okay now
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it's all fixed so no big deal so I'll just go back and I'll change to
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the Ben Q being my main display because this is my gaming display this is my 120
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HZ panel that did not fix the problem
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the problem ended up being caused by some weird setting within the control
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panel so I'll show you guys where that is all you got to do is open up your
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control panel and then search for
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tablet go to tablet PC
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settings then you're going to want to
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change the monitor I actually you setup
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and then you end up with a little thing that looks like this touch the screen to
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identify it as the touch screen done now
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you have the option to go through and do things like calibrating it or whatever
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else you want to do this fixed it so permanently that I'm not even able to
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demo the issue for you so there you have
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it thank you for checking out this impromptu lineus Tech tips episode on
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how to configure a secondary monitor as a touchcreen this will be most useful
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for note book users because they might
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not have a touchscreen notebook and they might want to add a secondary
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touchscreen or desktop users who have a primary display that they're already
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quite pleased with and I'm sorry for the technical difficulties on my switcher
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here but I'll get the hang of this at some
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point