Can you use this to connect two monitors to a laptop, and extend the screen?
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if the connectors are correct and you have a video card that supports dual screens.
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It can if the grey end fits with your laptop (or desktop computer. Laptop or desktop doesn't matter, you just need the right VGA connectability). The grey end is not a regular VGA end, It's a bit bigger. If it does fit your laptop or computer, than you can extend the screen as long as your computer already has the video card capability. Otherwise, the second monitor will just be a double of the first. For my desktop, its internal video card can only support one monitor, so I bought a VGA splitter cable with gigabit ethernet so that my desktop could extend the display among the first monitor and an extra monitor. Hope this helps :) It can if the grey end fits with your laptop (or desktop computer. Laptop or desktop doesn't matter, you just need the right VGA connectability). The grey end is not a regular VGA end, It's a bit bigger. If it does fit your laptop or computer, than you can extend the screen as long as your computer already has the video card capability. Otherwise, the second monitor will just be a double of the first. For my desktop, its internal video card can only support one monitor, so I bought a VGA splitter cable with gigabit ethernet so that my desktop could extend the display among the first monitor... » Read More It can if the grey end fits with your laptop (or desktop computer. Laptop or desktop doesn't matter, you just need the right VGA connectability). The grey end is not a regular VGA end, It's a bit bigger. If it does fit your laptop or computer, than you can extend the screen as long as your computer already has the video card capability. Otherwise, the second monitor will just be a double of the first. For my desktop, its internal video card can only support one monitor, so I bought a VGA splitter cable with gigabit ethernet so that my desktop could extend the display among the first monitor and an extra monitor. Hope this helps :) « Show Less
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you don't need this to do that, all you need is to plug in an external monitor into the VGA port and if it has sufficient memory it can access both monitors without this cable
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I bought it for my desktop and did not fit the port, so I had to buy a video card with the white-side's pin configuration.
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Yes, this a device that can be used to add a second monitor. I use mine to view my screen on a 55" HDTV.
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I am assuming you want to "extend the displays"? If this is so then no, your video card needs to have two monitor ports in order to "extend the displays". You will only be able to mirror them with this splitter.
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I just tried it with Windows 7 and it worked. I used the HDMI port on the left and the VGA port on the right. I believe when you do this you can no longer your the laptop screen (as a 3rd screen). Now maybe if you have the laptop docked you could run 3 monitors but not 100% sure
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I use it to extend the desktop from my laptop to another monitor and it works just fine. I don't have personal experience beyond that. If you are extending to more monitors than the main and one more, you may be able to use two adaptors; just a guess.
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Not with this. It is a switch. Its either one or the other. Its mostly used for TV's with only one HDMI. You can use HDMI out on a laptop and possibly VGA out but probably not for 3 separate screens. Need a decent graphics card in your PC to do that.
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It should work just fine. You will need to go into Screen Resolution and Extend the monitor. After connecting, be sure to reboot your laptop.
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Yes, but it's a short adapter, so you'll probably need at least a 3' DVI cable, depending on how far you monitor is going to sit from your laptop.
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Gayle yes it can. One from the Digital port and one from the HDMI port that requires an HDMI cable for your monitor. I currently run 2 monitors and the laptop display as we speak on this Plugable
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Yes, I had this connected to two external monitors. So was able to use the two external monitors and my laptop's monitor.
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This cable converts an HDMI output to a VGA output. That is, it does not add a new video output it merely changes the connector on an existing output. that being said if your are able to plug in an HDMI monitor or HDTV and extend your laptop video (most laptops WILL do this) then this cable will allow you to use a VGA monitor to extend your laptop display. To be sure search for your laptop make and model using Google and add "dual display" to the search string. Something will come up if this is possible.
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You would hook up your laptop to the Input side and your monitors to the output side. This box will only allow you to clone the output from your laptop. So from what I understand in your question, if you are using the extended feature of your laptop you would have: One display on your laptop and the other will be cloned between the two monitors.
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Yes, it does extend the display. But from my experience it is transparent to the computer, so the computer has no idea that there are 2 monitors. Therefore if you set any window to "full screen" it will span across both monitors. This is different (and not quite as handy) as other dual monitor solutions where the computer is aware of both monitors.
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did you try this for connecting the external monitor to your laptop. I have a dell laptop and want to buy it for the same use.
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I would think so if you are using the laptop screen as either the main display and a monitor as a second screen. I have not tried that but it should work.
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not sure about two external monitors, but you can run dual monitors when you count your laptop display as one of the two monitors.