How to Set Different Wallpaper Backgrounds On a Dual-Monitor Setup
Windows 10 makes it easy to add a second monitor to your PC. After you have them set up, you might want a different background on each one. Here’s how.
Since Microsoft released Windows 8.1, the ability to add a second monitor to your PC is much easier. The same holds true for Windows 10, too. But after you have them set up, you might want a different background on each one.
Before Windows 8.x, you needed a third-party utility like DisplayFusion to accomplish the task. However, now with Windows 10 (and 8.1), the feature to have a different wallpaper on each monitor is built-in.
Set a Different Wallpaper On Each Separate Monitor
To start, right-click on the desktop of either monitor and select Personalize from the context menu and select Personalize.
Settings will open to the Personalization section, where you’ll want to choose Background from the list on the left. Then scroll down to select your picture. There you can browse for additional wallpapers, too.
Once you’ve found the ones you like, right-click one and select the monitor you want it set as the background.
That’s all there is to it. Below is an example of two of my monitors with different stock Windows 10 backgrounds. Not too creative, I know, but at least you get the idea.
You can have different wallpapers on each monitor if you have a dual-monitor rig. Or a different wallpaper for each monitor if you have a multiple-monitor setup.
If you haven’t had multiple monitors set up before, make sure to read our article on how to configure dual-monitors on Windows 10.
Have fun and be creative. In fact, you might want to check out these cool panoramic wallpapers that span across your displays.
If you have some wallpaper configurations that you would like to share, join us in our Windows 10 Forums and post yours.
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hirbod
I wanted to know how you got the bigger folders on your screen in the pictures. Like in the second picture of your desktop where you show your setup and in your right hand monitor your have folders that are organized. I wanted to know how you did that?
Steve
Looks like Stardock Fences
wvmunza
I want to make an image on one screen and solid color on the other. How can I do that?
pokeman
I ended up making a huge single color image, instead of choosing a solid colour for one monitor.
Shane
Just make a picture with a solid color then use that as a custom image.
James
You could have one wallpaper as a solid colour and just use this method?
Joshua Wigginton
This is awesome except it doesn’t cover my unique situation… I want to have the automatic slideshow on all of my monitors but set a static, as in nonchanging, background for one of the multiple monitors I have set up… Any ideas anyone?
Andy
I think that you need to use Actual Multiple Monitors. It has that feature.
Erik
So I have a hp pavilion running windows ten. I have a monitor to go with it and it is plugged in through HDMI. When I go into personalize it doesn’t give me the option to set a different picture for each screen. I am doing it wrong?
CloroxBleach
right click the actual picture in choose your picture
John
Thanks for this correction!
Ashton
What if my monitors are different resolutions and sizes but I want the m to line up?
Justin Sane
It doesn’t give me the option to choose a monitor when I right click on the images, either.
johnnyblaze95060
Was this feature always there? I swear before a recent update you had to use Win+R and “control /name Microsoft.Personalization /page pageWallpaper” to be able to set different wallapers per monitor.
I’m not the only one, tons of pages out there suggest the same fix to a problem that this page suggests wasn’t a problem.
Mark Eisenbraun
Thanks so much! I just reinstalled my video driver and it put the same image on both screens. I forgot I had to right click on the image.
Ngozi
Worked like a charm. Thanks for sharing.
Brad
Is there a way to save the wallpapers? Because if I unplug my HDMI cable and plug it back in my monitor has the same background again as my laptop so I have to do the whole process all over again. Not that it is big of a deal but it would be nice if I could keep it somehow…