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On Windows 10, you have many ways to personalize your experience, including the ability to set a background image on your desktop. The only problem is that on a multi-monitor setup, when setting a background, the same image appears on all your monitors.
However, the Settings app includes a no so obvious option to set a different desktop wallpaper on each monitor. You just need to know where to look.
Step One: Arrange Your Monitors. Windows treats all the monitors on your desktop as one combined space, at least in terms of the wallpaper. You can adjust the position and spacing of the monitors’ virtual location on the Display Settings screen. To do this, right-click an empty area on your desktop and click “Screen resolution.”.
In this guide, you’ll learn the easy steps to set a different background image on each monitor.
How to set different wallpaper per monitor
- Open Settings.
- Click on Personalization.
- Click on Background.
- Under the “Background” drop-down menu, select Picture.
- Under “Choose your picture,” right-click the image you want, and select on which monitor you want to set the background image on.
Once you’ve completed the steps, the wallpaper will be displayed only on the monitor you have selected. Also, note that you can click the Browse button to select different images.
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I would suggest you to try the following steps.
a. Right click on the Empty screen.
b. Click on Display settings.
c. The process of setting up different wallpaper on a Windows 10 computer requires that the second monitor must be enabled in extended mode. Once you have dual or multiple monitors running in Extended Mode, you can set different wallpaper for different monitors on c computer running Windows 10.
d. Makeup your mind as to which wallpaper you wish to have on your second monitor and open Personalization’s Desktop Background tab and right click on the desired wallpaper to be set as background for the second monitor.
Note: When you right on the desktop background you will get an option to select the monitor to set the desktop background.
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Thank you for being a part of Windows 10 Technical Preview testing.
I would suggest you to try the following steps.
a. Right click on the Empty screen.
b. Click on Display settings.
c. The process of setting up different wallpaper on a Windows 10 computer requires that the second monitor must be enabled in extended mode. Once you have dual or multiple monitors running in Extended Mode, you can set different wallpaper for different monitors on c computer running Windows 10.
d. Makeup your mind as to which wallpaper you wish to have on your second monitor and open Personalization’s Desktop Background tab and right click on the desired wallpaper to be set as background for the second monitor.
Note: When you right on the desktop background you will get an option to select the monitor to set the desktop background.
Hope this helps. Let us know if you have any other issues with Windows in future.
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Hello - The display setting shows monitor 1 and 2 in extended mode.
When I run personalize from the desktop in either monitor there is no option to set the background for a different monitor.
Whether I click on monitor 1 or monitor 2 on the desktop, the new background shows on both monitors.
How do I get the option to select a different background on the second monitor in extended mode?
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Look for software: Display Fusion - it should do what you want.
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Hello -
This looks like it will work, as Display Fusion allows: Different image on each monitor, to Span image across all monitors, to Display a live preview of your desktop to help identify your monitors and Sets a Screen Saver for the Window Logon screen.
I still wonder why in Windows 10, the right click of an image in Personalization does not allow the selection of monitor 1 or monitor 2 for the background?
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Hi,
Did you upgrade to the latest Build 10166?
If you have not upgraded to the latest Build 10166, then I would suggest you to upgrade to the latest Build and check if that helps.
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10166
http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/07/09/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-10166
Hope this helps. Let us know if you have any other issues with Windows in future.
Did you upgrade to the latest Build 10166?
If you have not upgraded to the latest Build 10166, then I would suggest you to upgrade to the latest Build and check if that helps.
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10166
http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/07/09/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-10166
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I have the opposite issue - in extended mode, I get two different wallpapers on each monitor, however there is no way to set it to show the same image on both monitors but keep the 2 monitor functionality
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Okay, but how do you set up a different slideshow on each monitor? With W-8.1 I was able to have both my screens displaying a different picture from a slideshow of about 20, and they changed every few minutes.
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You have to use the old personalization from control panel but it seems hidden.
- Open up Run (Win+R).
- Paste this 'control /name Microsoft.Personalization /page pageWallpaper' without quotes, press OK.
From here you should be familiar with the customizations you had before. Setup your picture locations. You can right click a image and Set for monitor 1,2,3 depending on your setup.
![Monitor Monitor](/uploads/1/2/5/8/125845869/691294809.png)
On this screen you will also be able to setup shuffling of background at specified interval.
Edit: I am not using the Insiders version as I've moved to retail but this should work.
Edit 2:
Easy access. Creating a shortcut.
- Another helpful way to access this is to right click your desktop, new and create a shortcut.
- Paste the above in quotes in the the box where it says Type the location of the item.
- Name it Wallpaper Control or whatever you like.
- Put the shortcut into 'C:UsersYour Username HereAppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsStart MenuPrograms' where Your Username Here is obviously your login username.
- Now it'll be in your Start Menu in All Apps or you can simply press your Windows key and start typing whatever you named it, in my case once I start typing by the time i press 'wa' I can press enter and it'll load the page.
Dual monitors with each monitor showing different pictures
(Slide shows must use and share the same picture locations)
- Example you have 2 monitors, 1 and 2.
- Select all first and set your intervals and click shuffle.
- Deselect all your pictures by pressing Clear all.
- Set monitor 1 to any random picture.
- Set monitor 2 to any random picture that is not the same one you set for monitor 1.
- Press select all
Note: I tested with 10 seconds and what it seems to do is alternate between monitors. So monitor 1 changes first after 10 seconds, then the monitor 2 changes 10 seconds later. Roughly maybe off a couple seconds I'm not sure. I only came across this b/c I wanted 2 separate wallpapers on each monitor and thought I'd help some of you guys out.
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Yes, that lets me set a slide show, or two different pictures, but it still won't let me set two different slideshows. Is there something i'm missing?
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Edited my first post, to hopefully answer your question if that's what your after. Also a nice shortcut instead of the initial method.
If it's not what your after I'm not sure what to tell you. I'm done with this wallpaper nonsense hahaha.
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