Windows 10: Connect to Wireless Display with Miracast in Windows 10

How to: Connect to Wireless Display with Miracast in Windows 10

How to Connect to a Wireless Display with Miracast in Windows 10


Miracast is a wireless technology your PC, laptop, or tablet can use to project your screen to wireless TVs, projectors, and streaming media players that also support Miracast. You can use this to share what youre doing on your PC, present a slide show, or even play your favorite game on a larger screen.

Starting with Windows 10 build 17682, just like remote desktop youll see a control banner at the top of your screen when youre in a session. The banner keeps you informed of the state of your connection, allows you to quick disconnect or reconnect to the same sink and allows you to tune the connection based on what you are doing. This tuning is done via the settings gear, which optimizes the screen to screen latency based on one of the three scenarios:

• Game mode minimizes the screen to screen latency to make gaming over a wireless connection possible.
• Video mode increases the screen to screen latency to ensure the video on the big screen plays back smoothly and without glitching.
• Productivity modes strikes a good balance between game mode and video mode where the screen to screen latency is responsive enough that typing feels natural, while ensuring videos don’t glitch too often.

By default, all connections start off in productivity mode.





This tutorial will show you how to project your Windows 10 PC screen to a wireless TV, projector, or streaming media player with Miracast.

*note Both your Windows 10 computer (PC, laptop, or tablet) and device (TV, projector, or streaming media player) must support Miracast to be able to project your computer's screen to the device.

The device (TV, projector, or streaming media player) must support Miracast, and have Miracast turned on. To see if your device supports Miracast, you will need to check its manual to see if it's a supported feature.

Miracast requirements:

• Graphics driver must support Windows Display Driver Model WDDM 1.3 with Miracast support
• Wi-Fi driver must support Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) 6.30 and Wi-Fi Direct
• Windows 8.1 or Windows 10

See also:

• Fix connections to wireless displays or docks | Windows Support
• How to Check if Windows 10 PC Supports Miracast

Here's How:

1. Do step 2 (Connect), step 3 (Project), or step 4 (Action Center) below for how you would like to open Connect.

2. Press the Win+K keys, and go to step 5 below.

3. Press the Win+P keys, or swipe in from the right edge of the touch screen.
A) Click/tap on the Connect to a wireless display link, and go to step 5 below. (see screenshot below)





4. Open the step 5 below. (see screenshot below)




5. Do step 6 (connect) or step 7 (disconnect) below to either connect to or disconnect from a wireless display.


6. To Connect to a Wireless Display
A) Click/tap on the wireless display you want to project to. (see screenshot below)



B) Once connected, you can click/tap on the Change projection mode link to choose one of the options below: (see screenshot below)

[table][tr][td]Projection Mode[/td] [td]Description[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]PC screen only[/td] [td]You’ll see everything on your PC. (When you're connected to a wireless projector, this option changes to Disconnect.)[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Duplicate[/td] [td]You’ll see the same things on both screens.[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Extend (default)[/td] [td]You'll see everything spread over both screens, and you can drag and move items between the two.[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Second screen only[/td] [td]You’ll see everything on the connected screen. Your other screen will be blank.[/td] [/tr] [/table]





7. To Disconnect from a Wireless Display
*note If you move your PC beyond the range of the wireless display (such as to another room), or if you make your PC sleep or hibernate, the two devices will automatically disconnect.
A) Click/tap on the Disconnect button for the wireless display you want to stop projecting to. (see screenshot below)





That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Create a Connect Wireless Display and Audio Devices shortcut in Windows 10
• How to Check if Windows 10 PC Supports Miracast
• How to Create a Display Switch shortcut in Windows 10
• How to Change Presentation Mode to Project Display in Windows 10
• How to Project to this PC from Windows 10 Mobile Phone
• How to Connect to a Wireless Display with Miracast on Windows 10 Mobile Phone
• How to Add a Project Display context menu in Windows 10

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Cast to device from edge not working

Hi,

Thanks for the update and response,

I understand that you are facing some issues with using Miracast on the computer. Miracast will help you to wirelessly project to a big screen without fussing with proprietary technologies, network access, and different display
cables and adapters. Wireless display is available in Windows 10 PCs – laptops, tablets, and all-in-ones — allowing you to display your full Windows 10 experience (up to 1080p) to large wireless display-enabled screens at home and work.

As your miracast is not connecting to the device Please refer to the following Microsoft article to know in and out about Miracast.

Project to a wireless display with Miracast

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/project-wireless-screen-miracast

(Applies to windows 10)

If the issue persists, I suggest you to refer to the following article for more information.

 

windows 10 & miracast

Possibly -
https://www.windowsphoneinfo.com/threads/connect-to-wireless-display-with-miracast-in-windows-10.9916/
( although its not an MS article hopefully it will assist ).

PS - I've not tried MiraCast on W10, but on W8.1 it seemed 'hit and miss' for me -
Miracast on W8.1

 

Hey Kari, *Smile

I'm not aware of a way for both either.

 

OK, was worth a try *Smile

 

I am using Windows 10 on lenovo yoga 500 with touchscreen.
Sometimes steps 2, 3 and 4 stops working on my laptop and I don't know why. This gets correct when I restart the laptop.
I have got tired restarting the laptop every time. Can you help avoiding restart to correct the issue?

 

Hello tikeshrane, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

If you haven't already, you might see if restarting the explorer process instead may get it working again for you.

*Arrow Restart explorer.exe Process in Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials

 

Thanks a lot for the response.
I restarted the "Windows Explorer", but unfortunately it did not help *Sad