Use your TV as a second screen for your Windows laptop, with its own separate desktop, running independently.
Watch the setup walkthrough: (screen recording coming soon)
You plug a cable from your laptop to the TV. Your TV becomes a second screen, with its own taskbar, its own apps, its own desktop. Your laptop stays exactly as it is. You work on your laptop normally. Your mouse stays on the laptop. The TV runs on its own.
That's it.
| What | Example |
|---|---|
| A Windows laptop or PC | Any Windows laptop from the last 10 years |
| A TV, monitor, or projector | Anything with an HDMI port on the back |
| A cable | HDMI cable, or a USB-C to HDMI adapter if your laptop has no HDMI port |
Not sure which cable? Look at the side of your laptop. If you see a port that looks like a wide flat rectangle: that's HDMI, use an HDMI cable. If you only see small oval ports: those are USB-C, get a "USB-C to HDMI adapter" (under ₹500 / $6 on Amazon).
Double-click CheckStatus.bat; it checks everything and shows you exactly what is wrong in plain English.
For step-by-step fixes, see TROUBLESHOOT.md.
| File | When | What it does in plain English |
|---|---|---|
01-CreateTVUser.bat |
Once | Creates a separate TV account on your computer |
02-Setup.bat |
Once | Downloads and installs the software that makes this work |
CheckStatus.bat |
Any time | Checks everything; shows green tick or red cross for each thing |
StartTV.bat |
Every time | Turns the TV on as a second screen and opens a Windows desktop on it |
LockCursor.bat |
Optional | Keeps your mouse on the laptop. Close the window to turn it off. |
Think of it this way: your laptop is where you type and click. Your TV is where the boring-but-important work happens on its own; no babysitting needed.
| What to run on the TV | What you do on your laptop at the same time |
|---|---|
| Power Automate Desktop bot: fills forms, clicks through websites, copies data from one place to another, all automatically | Work on something else, watch it run, step in only if it asks |
| Research browser: a second Chrome window open with tabs for a topic you're reading about | Write notes or a doc on your laptop, glance at the TV for reference |
| Website scraper: a script that visits hundreds of pages and pulls out prices, contacts, or data into a spreadsheet | Laptop is free for anything else |
| n8n automation: runs a workflow that checks email, updates a sheet, sends a WhatsApp message, all on a loop | Your laptop stays clean; n8n runs quietly on the TV |
The TV runs its own full Windows desktop. Anything you can do on a PC, you can set running on the TV and forget about it.
Do I need to be technical to set this up? No. Just double-click the files in order, one by one. Each one tells you what to do on screen.
Will this break my laptop?
No. RDP Wrapper can be uninstalled manually: open C:\Program Files\RDP Wrapper\ and run RDPWInst.exe -u as Administrator. Nothing else is permanently changed.
Does this work on Windows Home edition? Yes. Works on Windows 10 and 11, Home and Pro.
My TV says "can't connect" or shows an error. See TROUBLESHOOT.md; it lists every common error in plain English.
After a Windows update, it stopped working.
Run StartTV.bat again. It fixes itself automatically. If it says the patch is not available yet, wait up to 48 hours and run it again; it will work.
Can I use a normal monitor instead of a TV? Yes. Any screen with an HDMI port works.
Windows normally does not allow you to open a second desktop session on the same PC. This tool installs a small patch called RDP Wrapper that unlocks this. The TV connects to your laptop over a private internal cable (not the internet). Every time you run StartTV.bat, it also checks if Windows has updated and downloads any fixes automatically, so it stays working without you doing anything.
MIT: free to use, share, and modify.