My kids have broken the screen on the laptop. I have a seperate monitor which i have connected it to which is working. What i cant seem to do is get
the monitor to become to show the things i work on without having to drag from the laptop screen to the monitor. Have i got this set up right. I
wanted the monitor to take the place of the laptop display.
What can i do.
Running xp on laptop.
right click on your desktop, properties
click the settings tap and its one of the options on there. i forget which though... theres 2 check boxes. i think its something to do with them.
primary moniitor or something.
my old laptop could do it. i don't think this one can so i can't really check
On my Dell laptop there's a function key that swaps the monitors around - press-and-hold the Fn key, and press F7 or F8.
Maybe there's something similar for your lappie?
Right click somewhere on the desktop, select properties, Settings, and there should be 2 screens showing (1 and 2). select the number 2 screen, check
the 'Use this device as the primary monitor' option and Robert is your Mother's brother
Most Laptops, If you connect the monitor up before you BOOT then they will assume Primary display is the montitor
As said aswell there is usually a Function Key like FN+F4 has a |0| symbol on it possibly
Common problem when people connect laptops to the projector in our Briefing Centre, we tell them Function F8 and they cack themselves when they press
the 3rd time and all the displays disappear.
Usally its function FKey with the little screen icon once to change from laptop to second screen hit again for both 3rd time for none 4th time for
back to laptop screen.
Then there is the Blakep82 Daddylonglegs screen priority in properties
Cheers guys i will do it tonight.
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Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
Right click somewhere on the desktop, select properties, Settings, and there should be 2 screens showing (1 and 2). select the number 2 screen, check the 'Use this device as the primary monitor' option and Robert is your Mother's brother