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Two monitors, two wallpapers: setting each screen in Windows 11 and 10

Updated 3 October 2026

Windows uses the same picture on every screen unless you tell it otherwise. Here's how to give each monitor its own.

With Windows' own settings

1. Open Settings › Personalization › Background.
2. Set Personalize your background to Picture.
3. Add the pictures you want with Browse photos, so they appear under Recent images.
4. Right-click a picture and choose Set for monitor 1, Set for monitor 2, and so on.

The numbers match the ones in Settings › System › Display › Identify. Windows 10 works the same way from its Background page.

Pictures that look sharp on both screens

Monitors often have different resolutions. Pick images at least as wide as each screen (for example 2560 pixels for a 1440p monitor) and use Fill under Choose a fit so nothing is stretched.

A board per monitor that keeps changing

tak draws a separate grid sized to each screen, at its real resolution, so nothing stretches across the gap between monitors. By default every screen shows your main board. In Settings › General › Screens you can give any screen a board of its own, for example references on one and something calmer on the other. Leave a screen empty and it goes back to the main board.