Connect wireless screen to a Windows 11 laptop (any!)
Hello,
I have just started using Windows 11 in earnest. My use case is for Church, where we lend a wireless tablet to an almost blind person to see what we project to the big screens using a Lenovo laptop.
This is a perfectly easy thing to do with Windows 10. Using the Cast (Miracast) from windows 10 to connect to the 10″ tablet on Windows 10. It works great. But it is not quite so robust and can disconnect easily if the user is far from the laptop.
Now the laptop has naturally upgraded to Win11 the process during connection is interrupting the laptop. Both the local screen AND the projector (wired) go blank (not great when we are in full flow in our service!). Then they both come on in say 1-2 secs (phew), THEN they both shrink say 15% the expand out to normal!
I have been trying out Spacedesk and I think it would be wonderful for use in our use case. But I find that this ALSO happens when a Spacedesk viewer connects to the laptop / server. This is why I gave the back story above. I need to be able to connect a wireless screen completely ‘silently’ and become a duplicate of the projector screen. For your product of course there is also a pop up on the main screen, but that I can live with. To complete the picture, when or if the Spacedesk viewer terminates, the process of blank screen(s) still happens (but comes back in 1-2 secs) but does not do the shrink/expand again.
We are on the Free license for the laptop.
Note both connect/disconnect under Windows 10 did NOT do this.
Any ideas to help please?
Chris
Hi @crispyweet,
For the shrinking screen animation, you can turn it off by going to Settings > Accessibility > Visual Effects then turning off Animation effects. But for the blank screen upon connection, this is a Windows 11 behavior that cannot be turned off and which also happens when you connect a physical monitor.
Hello and many thanks for this valuable information. It is really appreciated!
The Animation effects is so well hidden (and without explanation) I would never have found it! It should help us to switch that off, as we are live streaming along with the projection so that is one less thing to interfere with the stream.
It’s a great pity that the screen blank can’t be prevented. Same reason in fact, as if a viewer tablet connects or disconnects during our stream it will get blanked then come back (all screens, and as you say, the wired one too).
I can see why the Windows 11 uptake was so slow!!! Windows 10 had no such issues.
Best regards,
Chris