Re: viewing in xtended desktop is messed up?

Most laptops have 3 mode for handling a single desktop being shown. The
actual button that you need to press varies from model to model. On mine it
is Function F3, but yours will be different. Usually it is marked with some
sort of a monitor like icon on the keyboard.

Mode 1 is Laptop only
Mode 2 is Projector (external plug) only
Mode 3 is Both showing the same thing


In your case, I suspect that the extended desktop became inactive and your
laptop chose one of these options (#3). Some laptops are smart enough to
sense when a projector is plugged in (usually during the power-up sequence)
and will activate or deactivate the extended desktop depending on the case,
other laptops are not so smart. But all this history is boring you, I'm
sure.

To fix this:
1) Open the control panel (Start => Settings => Control panel)
2) Open the display dialog
3) Click on the Settings tab
4) Right click on the grayed out display monitor
5) Select Attached
6) Click Apply
7) OK out of everything

Try it now,

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"Bruce" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Previously when we viewed a ppt in extended desktop on a laptop and
projector, when we started the program it just showed the presentation on
the extended desktop. Apparently something got changed. On the laptop
before we could see the presentation, with right and left arrows and pause
it (and the slides on the left I think, don't remember now) this way we
could easily work with the ppt program without everyone seeing on the
projector.
Now when we view it, the same thing appears on both the laptop and the
projector, and we can't really contol it as good on the laptop?

Is there a setting to change this back? I hit the detect ane repair
thinking this would be it didn't.

Thanks for the help,
Bruce



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