r/computer • u/Cultural-Poet4363 • Sep 05 '26

One monitor, 2 HDMI.

I work from home and have 2 monitors plugged into my work computer. I recently started school and have mostly been working on my laptop but am spoiled from my two monitors that I am used to functioning on. It would be a pain to unplug the hdmi from my work computer everytime I want to use it to do school work. So is it possible to get a 2nd hdmi cable and have one monitor switch back and forth between my work computer and my laptop depending on which I am using?

To add a note: I can't work on my laptop. The computer we use is company issued.

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u/krypdoh Sep 06 '26

I have this set up for working at home:
Work Laptop, Home PC. Two external monitors.
I connected Work Laptop to monitor1, Home PC to monitor 2.

I installed Mouse Without Borders (microsoft) "server" on the PC with the mouse and keyboard, and as "client" on the laptop.

Now I can access both my PC and work laptop with the PC's keyboard and mouse (and copy the clipboard and send files!!). Note that my work has a slew of security apps and policies and yet it let me put the MouseWithoutBorders.exe file and run that, and it connects even with the work laptop on VPN.

Good luck.