This allows you to move extra open windows, open programs, and applications between your desktop and TV screen.

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Read more April 18, 2020 Google Chromecast is one of the simplest ways to watch videos from your gadgets to your TV.

With this device, you will be able to access video contents from online streaming websites even without a smart TV.

Watching from small screen to big screen thats the basic concept of it.

Google Chromecast mirrors your display from an Android device, an iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows PC, or Chromebook.

Mirroring means having another device show your screen exactly as you see it on your computer or mobile device.

In addition, you can also extend your desktop surface wirelessly, not just mirror it.

This can be more useful in a lot of situationsyoure opening up a whole new screen to use as a second desktop.

Here are the steps needed to extend your display from a Windows 8 or Windows 10 desktop: Cast Your Desktop to your TV with Chromecast Casting your computer screen is very easy; just make sure that your computer and Chromecast device are connected to the same WiFi network.

You can display the whole computer screen using Chromebooks, Mac, and Windows.

Click the three dots icon at the top right of the screen and click Cast.

Next to Cast to, click the drop down arrow, and select Cast desktop.

Choose your Chromecast device where you want to watch the content.

However, this method of extending your display works with Windows 8 as well.

From the Start menu, select Settings.

An alternate route is to right-click on Display Settings on your desktop as a shortcut to get into System Display.) In Settings, go to System (Display, notifications, apps, power).

Here, we are going to trick Windows into thinking theres a secondary display already attached, even though it isnt.

It says Display not detected, but shows a blue screenclick on it.

Select display 2.

In the drop-down box, select Extend these displays.

A message will pop up and say, Keep these display settings Click the Keep changes button.

Now you are ready to use the secondary display to extend your desktop surface with your Google Chrome browser and Chromecast.

Before you can connect to your Chromecast by clicking the Chromecast icon in the upper-right of your Chrome browser, you first need to click the small arrow on the Chromecast icon area.

Then, select it. As the Cast screenwindow, choose display number 2, the one we just fooled Windows into thinking we have.

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