It’s important enough that you might want to upgrade your plan. You have to switch back and forth manually between the displays. The less expensive plans – Splashtop Personal and Splashtop Business Solo – don’t handle dual monitors the same way. Bruceb Consulting clients are using Splashtop Business Pro. You can display your dual office monitors side-by-side on your dual home monitors, exactly as if you were sitting at the office.
Splashtop Business Pro includes true multi-to-multi monitor support.
Dual monitors at the office, dual monitors at home Make sure that Sleep is set to Never, as in the above screenshot. On the office computer, click on Start / Settings (the gear in the left column) / System / Power & sleep. You can’t connect to your office computer if it has gone to sleep or turned off. Set the office computer not to go to sleep I’ll describe the specific steps for Splashtop, but this may also help if you’re using one of the other products. (If you’re a client and you want Splashtop remote access to your office computer, drop me a note – it’s easy and cheap.) Bruceb Consulting clients have been using Splashtop for several years. It’s the reasonably priced alternative to LogMeIn, GoToMyPC, and TeamViewer. Splashtop has become one of the most popular products for remote access. Here are some tips that can improve that experience – setting your office computer not to go to sleep, two tips for dual monitors, and a way to improve a blurry display. A lot of you are working remotely, connecting to an office computer from a home computer or laptop.