Monitor hooked up to laptop

[iambrutus]

I just hooked up a new monitor to the docking station for a users laptop. I want to make the external monitor the primary, so that the task bar is put on that screen (i have used expaned desktop). I have tried all of the tricks that i can find and think of including, clicking on the #2 monitor, and draging it to be #1 - doesn't work. I also cannot check the box that says use as primary (because that would just be to damn easy wouldn't it!!) any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ScarletInMyVeins]

Are you driving the focus or the trailblazer today?

 

[osustamm]

I do it all the time but the "Use this device as the primary monitor" always works for me... Just to check, make sure you are highlighted on monitor 2 when you click it... i'm sure you are but seems to most of the time be that easy for others.

Good Luck!

 

[iambrutus]

Are you driving the focus or the trailblazer today?

wtf, i dont have the focus anymore. i have a stratus now, the wife drives the trailblazer most of the time (too expensive to drive it from ytown to akron)

I do it all the time but the "Use this device as the primary monitor" always works for me... Just to check, make sure you are highlighted on monitor 2 when you click it... i'm sure you are but seems to most of the time be that easy for others.

Good Luck!

that didn't work, #2 was selected but the use as primary was grayed out

 

[ScarletInMyVeins]

Well take the laptop out to the parking lot, place it underneath one of the tires on the stratus and place the car in reverse. Run it over a few times and try the monitor thing again.

 

[iambrutus]

Well take the laptop out to the parking lot, place it underneath one of the tires on the stratus and place the car in reverse. Run it over a few times and try the monitor thing again.

holy crap i think that worked....SIMV you are a genious, i love you man, but not like this (anymore)

 

[ScarletInMyVeins]

omg

 

[exhawg]

Fn F8?

 

[BrutusMaximus]

Wait a minute, you shouldnt even have to go that far. A laptop normally has 1 VGA out.......and when you attach a monitor to that, the monitor should automatically take over. Sorta like plugging in headphones and having them take over your speakers. What kinda pagan laptop is that? :)

 

[LoKyBuckeye]

i have a stratus now

Mom: Honey, do you want to go to Pottery class with me this weekend?

Daughter: I wish you were dead!

[ awkward silence, a struggle for a normal conversion ]

Dad: I'm gonna take the car into the shop tomorrow.

Daughter: You mean your lame Dodge Stratus?

Dad: You don't talk about my car that way!!

Mom: Dear Lord..

Dad: I drive a Dodge Stratus!! You don't talk about my Dodge Stratus that way!!

Daughter: Shut up!

Dad: You do not talk to your father that way!! I am a Division Manager!! I can do 100 push-ups in twenty minutes!!

Daughter: I'm going to Rob's house! I hate you - both!

 

[iambrutus]

Mom: Honey, do you want to go to Pottery class with me this weekend?

Daughter: I wish you were dead!

[ awkward silence, a struggle for a normal conversion ]

Dad: I'm gonna take the car into the shop tomorrow.

Daughter: You mean your lame Dodge Stratus?

Dad: You don't talk about my car that way!!

Mom: Dear Lord..

Dad: I drive a Dodge Stratus!! You don't talk about my Dodge Stratus that way!!

Daughter: Shut up!

Dad: You do not talk to your father that way!! I am a Division Manager!! I can do 100 push-ups in twenty minutes!!

Daughter: I'm going to Rob's house! I hate you - both!

yes, indeed, i drive a dodge stratus!

LOL

 

[CleveBucks]

Got a clip of that video? I've been looking forever. My all-time fav SNL skit.

 

[LoKyBuckeye]

no... I'm trying to find it though... it's one of Ferrell's best

 

[osustamm]

Hey, i just tried it and am having the same problem as you... I thought i did it before but only extended it. This isn't a pagen laptop either, lol.

i would like to know how to have both screens be the primary monitor.

 

[BrutusMaximus]

Ohhh my fault, I mis-understood what you were tryin to do. You wanna use the external monitor as the primary, and extend it onto the laptop monitor. Some video cards do not support this.