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How to Mirror Your Screen in Windows 10

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Windows 10 is here, and while the new operating system should be pretty familiar to Windows seven and eight users, a few menu options have been shuffled around. Information technology'southward like letting a friend crash at your place while you're away; afterward, you'll notice a g little things that aren't exactly where you lot left them. In the new operating system, for example, the process for projecting your computer screen to a TV has changed. The new process is similar to the way it worked in Windows 8, but not identical. Here's how it works.

What You'll Need

About computers that come with Windows 8 or Windows 10 and Intel processors take WiDi support, but computers that upgrade from Windows 7 may not. If you lot're not sure whether your computer supports WiDi, the best way to observe out is to just go ahead and try mirroring your screen with the process described below and meet if it works.

If your figurer doesn't back up WiDi, you still have options, like the Actiontec ScreenBeam USB Transmitter. This dongle, and like USB transmitters from other manufacturers, permit machines without WiDi broadcast as though they did have the technology. For more than full general data, check out our primer on Miracast.

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You'll need a Miracast/WiDi receiver for your television set. We recommend the Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter, but near Miracast receivers should work fine. (We did, however, observe that the characteristic did not piece of work with the Roku boxes nosotros tried. Miracast on Roku is still a beta feature, and has been unreliable in our tests.)

When you're ready to begin, here's how to mirror your screen with Windows ten.

Ready your Miracast receiver.

Plug your Miracast receiver into your TV and a ability source, then select the advisable HDMI input on your Boob tube. That's usually all you lot need to do, but as every Miracast device works a little differently, follow the manufacturer's instructions to get your receiver up and running. Our how-to can provide some general tips.

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Open the Get-go carte du jour on your Windows 10 auto.

From here, you can just search for Continued Device Settings in the Start carte's search field to skip a few steps. If not, read on.

Click on Settings.

Select Devices.

Choose Connected Devices.

Click Add together a Device.

Select your WiDi receiver.

For our tests, we used an Iogear GWAVR; other receivers will have different names.

That's information technology. Your computer should at present exist mirrored on your TV. If information technology's not, try to repeat the process. If nix works, that'southward merely a peril of using Miracast/WiDi engineering. There are so many moving parts from and then many different manufacturers that some combinations merely apparently don't work, and there's not much you can do aside from trying a different receiver.

Windows viii users may observe that the process differs somewhat from the old method (in which they selected Settings, Project and Add together Wireless Brandish), but it's a similar procedure overall.

If you'd like to disconnect your device, you can do then easily.

Click on your receiver under Projectors.

Select Remove Device.

Click Yes.

There you take it. Yous may want to mirror your screen to share documents, lookout man streaming Tv, or only because yous happen to have a Windows 10 PC and a Miracast receiver lying around and 5 minutes on your hands. Any your reason, the process is exceedingly simple and straightforward.