{"id":50996,"date":"2022-05-09T21:49:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T21:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/faq\/how-do-i-switch-to-an-external-monitor-on-my-hp-notebook\/"},"modified":"2022-05-09T21:49:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T21:49:52","slug":"how-do-i-switch-to-an-external-monitor-on-my-hp-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/faq\/how-do-i-switch-to-an-external-monitor-on-my-hp-notebook\/","title":{"rendered":"How do i switch to an external monitor on my hp notebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Press the fn and f4 function keys at the same time to switch the image from the notebook<\/strong> display, to the external monitor<\/strong>, or to both.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n You can use CTRL+TAB to switch<\/strong> between different windows in the browser of your laptop’s display monitors.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n On your laptop’s desktop, right-click the battery icon. Select Power Options. On the left side of the Power Options page, select Choose what closing the lid does.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Connect an HDMI cable from your laptop to an input port on the switch<\/strong>. Run an HDMI cable from the switch’s output port to the display you’d like to use. On the switch, select whichever input the laptop is using.<\/p>\n Most laptops have at least one connector that can be used to plug in a monitor, be it HDMI, VGA, DVI, or DisplayPort. Some of the very thin laptops require an adapter as there isn’t room for a full-size DisplayPort or HDMI output, and this isn’t always supplied in the box.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Right-click the “Volume” icon on the Windows taskbar, select “Sounds” and choose the “Playback” tab. Click the “Digital Output Device (HDMI)” option and click “Apply” to turn on the audio and video functions for the HDMI port.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Right-click on the volume icon on the taskbar. Select Playback devices and in the newly open Playback tab, simply select Digital Output Device or HDMI. Select Set Default, click OK.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Keyboard Shortcuts to Switch Between Virtual Desktops To quickly switch between virtual desktops in Windows 10 with a keyboard shortcut, press Windows+Ctrl+Left Arrow to switch to a lower-numbered desktop or Windows+Ctrl+Right Arrow for a higher-numbered one.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Restart everything: Shut down Windows and all your monitors. Then, turn everything on and boot up again. This can often fix your issue. If necessary, roll back driver updates: If your display driver recently updated, it could be causing the issue.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Make sure the cable connecting your PC to your external monitor is secure. Try changing the cable connecting the external monitor. If the new one works, you know the previous cable was faulty. Try using the external monitor with a different system.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Press the fn and f4 function keys at the same time to switch the image from the notebook display, to the external monitor, or to both. How do I switch to an external monitor? Right click on an empty area of the desktop. Choose Display Settings. Scroll Down to the Multiple displays area and select …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How do I switch to an external<\/strong> monitor?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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