# Remote Desktop | Enabling Multiple Monitors

**<span class="">Quick and Easy Guide Showing How to Enable "Use All My Monitors" in Remote Desktop</span>**

<span class="">This option must be ticked if you want to see your other monitors in the remote session.</span>

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### 1. Editing Remote Desktop Configuration - Right Click edit

<span class="">Find the Remote Desktop icon file you want to configure. Right-click &gt; Show more options &gt; Edit.</span>

<span class="">On Windows 10, you won't see "Show more options." Instead, you will see the Edit button instantly.</span>

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### 2. Enabling the multiple screen option - Display settings RDP

<span class="">Now, inside the RDP settings for the RDP file, click Display. Then, make sure "Use all my monitors for the remote session" is ticked, as shown in the image below.</span>

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### 3. Saving and Overwriting current RDP file - Save as

<span class="">Inside the RDP settings, click on the General tab &gt; Save As.</span>

<span class="">Next, make sure you are in the same folder that the RDP file is in, then, keeping the same name, click Save.</span>

<span class="">This will prompt Windows to ask you if you wish to overwrite the file. Click Yes.</span>

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### 4. Open the RDP file 

<span class="">Now go back to the RDP file, double-click it, and connect to the remote.</span>

<span class="">Now you should see your other monitors displaying the remote session as well.</span>

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