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 you’re 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 you’ll see a control banner at the top of your screen when you’re 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.

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 If you are projecting wirelessly to another PC, be sure to install the Wireless Display optional feature on the PC you are projecting to for the Connect app to be available on it.

2 Do step 3 (Connect), step 4 (Project), step 5 (Action Center), or step 6 (Settings) below for how you would like to open Connect.

3 Press the Win + K keys, and go to step 7 below.

4 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 7 below. (see screenshot below)

5 Open the Action Center, click/tap on the Connect quick action button, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)

6 Open Settings, click/tap on the System icon, click/tap on Display on the left side, click/tap on the Connect to a wireless display link under Multiple displays on the right side, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)

7 Do step 8 (connect) or step 9 (disconnect) below to either connect to or disconnect from a wireless display.

8 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)

You may be prompted to allow the connection on the display you want to connect to.

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

9 To Disconnect from a Wireless Display

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

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