If y'all're still using Windows 7 considering you lot hate Windows 8 and you utilise more than one monitor, you lot've probably run into the limitation of not being able to apply a different wallpaper for each monitor. Windows 8 actually has quite a few awesome features for dual or more than monitor setups, but until they set the whole Start Screen/No-Outset-Button issues, people aren't going to exist migrating anytime soon.

Luckily, there are a couple of things you can practice to rectify this problem in Windows seven. I'll walk y'all through the different methods, starting with a uncomplicated little trick in Windows vii which won't require you to install whatsoever third-party software. The remainder of the options are freeware or commercial applications.

Method 1 – Create a Larger Image

If you accept multiple monitors that are using the same resolution, so you can actually create an epitome that is the width of all the monitors combined and use that as your wallpaper. For example, if you are using two monitors with a resolution of 1600×1200, then you tin can create an image that is 3200×1200 and load that up as the groundwork.

The only thing y'all have to do is to choose Tile and it volition span the image across the screens. If you lot accept three monitors, then you would create an image that is 4800×1200 and so on.

tile background image

At present if y'all accept monitors with different resolutions because the monitors are different, and so you lot tin use a similar technique, but you'll have to play around with the alignment to get it right. You lot'll still stitch the images together, just you'll have to leave some black or white space at the bottom of one to get them to marshal correctly.

A absurd site that helps you lot notice wallpapers for multiple screens is InterfaceLift.com. Or you lot can find wallpapers for the verbal resolution that you need. It's a very help site in this regard.

Method 2 – Dual Monitor Tools

A free and open source program called Dual Monitor Tools works really well for using different backgrounds in Windows 7.

dual monitor tools

You can use it to spread ane prototype beyond multiple monitors or you tin utilise a different epitome for each monitor. The program lets you adjust the images and preview the changes before yous really fix the wallpapers. It can also handle if one monitor is landscape and another is portrait.

The program likewise has a agglomeration of other features similar swap screen for managing windows using hotkeys and dual launcher, which lets you open applications with hotkeys and have and then open on specific monitors at specific positions.

Method 3 – DisplayFusion, UltraMon, MultiMon

There seem to exist only a couple of players in the multi-monitor software camp and those are namely DisplayFusion, UltraMon and MultiMon. Both DisplayFusion and MultiMon come with complimentary versions that tin accomplish the goal of setting different wallpapers in Windows 7. If you desire all the actress features that they include, you can buy the paid versions, simply for our purposes it'south not necessary.

Luckily, I already wrote a review of these three programs: All-time Dual Monitor Software. It's really hard to say which one is improve since they all exercise a really adept job.

Of course, similar I mentioned earlier, in Windows 8, you lot no longer have to worry near this problem. Now you can just right-click on the image and choose which monitor you want that groundwork to apply to.

windows 8 multi monitor

If y'all know of another mode or use a different programme for setting different backgrounds in Windows 7, please allow usa know in the comments. Savor!