Windows 10: Creating a "Virtual"/"Fake" Second display on Windows 10

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How to enable a fake second display in Windows 10 as Windows 8.1? Not Virtual Desktop

Thank you for assit

We say "fake" display but maybe is not the correct way to call this, anyway here is how to enable a virtual/fake display/monitor in Windows 8.1:

• Right click on the desktop, click 'Screen Resolution'
• Click 'Detect' button on the next screen (when click on Detect, a new second monitor was shown on the right of the main display)
  
• Click 'Another display not detected' and under the multiple displays option select 'Try to connect anyway on: VGA'
• Click 'Apply'

With this very easy method and a program like TeamViewer you can use them to extend your desktop to other laptop/PC/WindowsTablet... in the same wireless network but now in windows 10 is imposible to do this. What many users I know and me want is to extend
the desktop to other Windows 10 PC via wireless ad hoc, or innthe same LAN. It must to be an importand, basic and native funtion on the system but....

Now in Windows 10 when you make click on 'Detect' Button nothing happens, no other virtual display is shown, nothing. you just need to have 2 PCs, 1 with windows 8/8.1 and other with windows 10 and you will test this.

Other change, is now in Windows 10 when you go to Right click and go to Display settings, actually it goes to a "metro like" settings interface and not to the original in the control panel. Yes, I know going to 'Appearance and personalization' > 'Adjust
screen resolution'' I can go to the "classic" Display settings as in Windows 8.1

Note 1: the funtion to create a fake display in windows 10 does not work niether going through Control Panel nor Desktop> Right Click > Resolution....

Note 2: We perfectly know we can buy a monitor but this is not the problem here. What we want is to give other use to a Windows 10 device, for example turn a surface on a temporal second display to extend my laptop desktop when needed, not to mirror/show
the same, it is to extend the desktop that is a very different thing.

Thank you

 

Creating a fake display on windows 10?

I need to create a fake dysplay on my main pc to remotely conect with my notebook and use it as a second screen.

I cant use a headless ghost, cause my computer only have um vga output(intel integrated graphics) and is in use, so it have to be made on the software side.

After some update, all of this methods doest seen to works:

Can a fake second display be enabled in Windows 10?

Is there a way to fake a dual (second) monitor

 

How to enable a fake second display in Windows 10 as Windows 8.1? Not Virtual Desktop

I updated to Windows 10 on Jul 30 and discovered that Microsoft broke this method of adding a fake second monitor: Is there a way to fake a dual (second) monitor which I rely on for scaling some small programs to full screen with OBS. The "Detect" button
in Control Panel seems to do nothing, and the "Detect" button in Settings simply says a display was not connected.

Is there any way to force Windows 10 to think there's a display connected on VGA without extra hardware or paid software? I'm using a laptop with an NVIDIA 860M with HDMI, VGA, and DisplayPort out.

What I've tried:

The "My display is not shown..." option in the NVIDIA Control Panel, which won't let me add anything and only has options for televisions

SpaceDesk, which almost works except that my real display is bumped to #2, and requires a client to be connected

DemoForge Mirage/ZoneScreen, which also require a connected client and are somewhat unstable on recent versions of Windows

VirtualMonitor which I think is almost what I want, but isn't compatible with Windows >7 and has some compatibility issues (?)

Note that I am not looking for Virtual Desktop software, and I don't need anything as fancy as Matrox PowerDesk or Virtual Display Manager.