I Am Having A Dual Monitor With Out Two Monitors Problem
Mar 26, 2007
well i was having trouble with my mouse as if it was on another screen and this had happened to me once before when i reinstalled xp after my computer got messed up so i was screwing with the display dual moitor settings and me being the complete fool that i am i selected the 2 monitor and put it as my primary well now i can not go back and change it if any one of you can tell me how to change it i would be very pleased
some specs that might help are these i am on a dell xps 400 running ops xp media
Windows XP, SP-3, 500 Meg memory, Nvidia video controler.
After a windows reload some programs pop up off the screen to the left and cannot be seen. The second montor is to the right. Both work and display fine. How can I eliminate this phantom third screen? If anyone thinks they might have a solution I can provide more details.
i plugged in my secondary monitor and my primary quit working, now the secondary shows the screen but my primary just has a box floating around that says self test feature check... i just want more work space, can someone help me?
I'm using a Sony laptop and have an external screen attached. I've set up XP to use both the external and built in laptop screen and also checked the "Extend my Windows desktop on to this monitor". This all works ok with one exception.
As I sit in front of my laptop the external monitor is to my left. In order to get the mouse on to the external display (on my left) I have to drag my mouse pointer to the far right of the laptop display.
I've tried making the external monitor the primary display but this doesn't help me either.
Is there a way I can tell XP that I want the mouse to move to secondary display when I drag the it to the left hand side of my primary display?
i have a pc with 2 ports for monitors i am using the dvi ouput to my plasma tv (through a dvi to 15 pin converter) which works fine. however i cant seem to get my other 15 point outlet to work.
I am assuming i have to activate some sort of dual monitor software? I am using xp basically how do i use 2 monitors simultaneously
I just moved in to college and set up my computer, but due to limited space didn't bring my second monitor. Now my aim, and ventrilo windows are still on the other monitor but no way to get them to the current monitor for use.
I have two monitors at home and at the office and both work fine at either place. But when I connect from home to the office via VPN, I can't get two monitors to work. What do I need to do?
I'm using a Sony laptop and have an external screen attached. I've set up XP to use both the external and built in laptop screen and also checked the "Extend my Windows desktop on to this monitor". This all works ok with one exception. I've tried making the external monitor the primary display but this doesn't help me either.
Is there a way I can tell XP that I want the mouse to move to secondary display when I drag the it to the left hand side of my primary display?
I'm using a HP laptop with a second monitor. When I disconnect the extra monitor, programs still "load" on that system. How do I move them back to the laptop display.
I have read my motherboard manual and I found out that I have the ability to use dual monitor support.
I used it on another laptop that I had and it worked well except the screen resolution changed and I had to reset it.
I now want to use dual monitor support on my desktop computer for power points and other things but I think i may need a DVI to VGA adaptor which I might buy. Is this the right thing to do. Will I need anything else apart from this adaptor? I can see a DVI port apart from my VGA port in my pc.
I don't have the connectors mentioned in the motherboard manual. (pg18 under graphics card)
ftp://174.142.97.10/manual/ConRoe945G-DVI.pdf
I can see a DVI port apart from my VGA port in my pc.
After I get that part right can I run extend my tasbar and desktop onto that monitor.
I have a Dell Lattitude C840 laptop with an Nvidia video card installed by Dell.
Whenever I plug into a LCD projector and activate my external monitor the dual monitor feature comes on and I cannot disable it.
Some times I want to run dual monitor with the laptop (such as for lectures), however, sometimes I want what appears on the laptop screen to be the same as on the projected image.
I have tried going into the Display Properties and Settings to disable the second monitor and when I do all that happens is that I go back to only seeing my laptop's monitor and nothing on the projector. When I activate the external monitor the dual monitor feature kicks on again.
It never used to do this and I am not sure what changed on my system. suggestions?
i have read that you have to buy a certain part with dvi something or other to get dual monitors, but the part that my monitor pluggs into now (ima call it the monitor outlet) if i took a monitor outlet out of my old computer and put it into my current one so that i have 2 monitor outlets. would that work?
I have an old Compaq 1200 laptop. It had Windows ME when I got it. I noticed when I first turned it on, the display properties showed that there were 2 monitors when really there's only one (the LCD screen). And the desktop is larger than my laptop screen, so I have to place the mouse on the edges of the screen to get to the rest of the desktop. I figured once I wiped it and installed XP it would go away, but it isn't. I don't see anything in the BIOS either, the BIOS is pretty limited. Has anyone seen this before?
I'm running XP Pro, and for some reason I can't seem to get dual monitors set up properly. I'd like to have 2 monitors set up so that they are identical copies of each other. However, everytime I enable the second monitor in the display properties windows seems to insist on wanting to have that set up as a second monitor to "extend" my desktop. Is there some hidden registry tweak that I have to set? Any ideas?
I have two monitors set up, and I'm trying to get it so I can be playing a game or using a fullscreen application like Vegas while typing something on the other monitor. I tried doing this, but clicking on the other window that I want to type in makes it the active window and minimizes whatever else I'm doing on the first monitor. Is there any way to either A) Edit a text document without making it the active window, or B) Allow both monitors to have active windows at the same time Is it possible to do any of those?
I have dual monitors on my work computer and use them to access two applications simultaneously.I use my home computer to connect to my work computer using remote desktop.If I set up a second monitor on my home computer Is there any way I can use the 2 monitors on the home computer in the remote desktop environment?
When switching between dual and single monitors, how do you save the positioning of the monitors so I do not have to reorient the two monitors under display properties settings?
I have 2 Acer monitors hooked up to my X800 and sometimes after turning themselves off while I was afk only one will come back on when I return to the PC. Turning the monitor on/off doesn't help, nor does opening a window that I know is open on the monitor that is off. Any ideas? The screens do work correctly after reboot.
How can I determine if I have a video card installed in my pc that supports dual monitors?And if so, will using a VGA splitter cable allow me to use either of them for differnt task?
I'm running two lcds that has my desktop sctretched across both. However, everytime I shutdown or get a system pop-up, it's centered and distorted between the two monitors (as that is recognized as the center of the screen). I just wondered if there was a way to specify the center of one monitor or the other for these pop-ups?
I'm running a dual monitor setup with with Windows XP and a NX6600GT-VTD128 graphics card. Though in my searches, I've come to the repeated answer that what I'm wanting is impossible at this moment in time I suppose it never hurts to ask anyway.
I want to be able to run full screen applications on one monitor and switch to applications on the other without the fullscreen app collapsing to the desktop. Is there any way to do this?
I understand that the alternative to this to just run the full screen app in windowed mode, but not all programs support this. Is there any third party software that can force a program to run in windowed mode?
I'd greatly appreciate any insight anyone may have..thank you for taking the time to help me.
I have a dual monitor setup with the primary to the left of the secondary monitor.Sometimes when initially opening Word it will appear just of screen at the top left corner of the Primary monitor. I can bring it back on-screen by maximizing it from the taskbar, but it disappears off-screen when I restore it.The only way to bring it back is to change the monitor settings to temporarily place the secondary monitor at the top left corner of the primary.Then Word appears back on the secondary monitor.I can then change the settings to move the secondary monitor back to the right of the Primary and Word follows it. Is there a way to prevent this? or a better way to bring Word back where it belongs?
At work I have a PC running WinXP x64 with dual monitors At home I have a PC running WinXP with dual monitors (Both have SP2)
I would like to use Remote Desktop Connection to work from home, on my work computer, USING dual monitors. Right now the remote window opens (with the size of one monitor) while spanning both monitors. IE Half of the window is on one monitor, the other half is on the other monitor.
I can't seem to expand the window to span both monitors. (I've tried doubling the deskwidth resolution in my .rdp file.)
Has anyone managed to accomplish the above? With my setup?
How would I move the taskbar from the left to the right monitor? The extended desktop doesn't have a task bar and it is mounted vertically (for easier viewing of PDF manuals). I would like to be able to move it but doesn't do it if I drag across and drop.... suggestions?
problem is single-screen games. When launching a game, I would want for the 2nd monitor to stay on desktop and not get "included" in the game. Included as in going into standby / power saving mode.Can this be bypassed? I understand it must be quite impossible to use the mouse on the 2nd monitor while in-game on the 1st monitor, but I would at least want to see the desktop and the real-time programs that are running there (virus scanners, time, IRC etc.).
When I exit the game, or alt-tab, the 2nd monitor automatically returns from power save and all is normal.
Some specs if needed:
GF 8800GT 512 Core2Duo E6600 LG Flatron L1953TR as 1st monitor LG Flatron L1952TQ as 2nd WIN XP Pro SP3
My Acer XP screen cracked.I looked it up and was able to connect it to a different monitor by using the command: Fn then pressing F5 three times. It worked for the last few months, but Yesterday I accidentally hit the power cord of the monitor and it switched back to the laptop. I tried the command again but this time it didn't work.
Is there another command or something I could do to connect my laptop to the other monitor?
