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Cannot Mirror Desktop in Vista Home Premium
Installed Vista Home Premium (Upgrade) on an XPPro system (clean install)
with 2 displays. The desktop was extended to the 2nd display automatically when it setup. Unplugged 2nd display and uninstalled it in Device Manager. Rebooted - device not listed in Device Manager. Reconnected 2nd display and it reverted to the extended desktop. All the resources that I've read suggest that mirrored desktops are the default - and that the only way to achieve this is when the device is first connected. Any ideas on how to reset the 2nd display to be mirrored? The 2nd display is a 40" LCD that we use for displaying actions to the customers on the other side of the counter. TIA! - John |
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Cannot Mirror Desktop in Vista Home Premium
FWIW - we did find a workaround today. The latest nVidia drivers are Vista
certified, and installing the nVidia Control Panel let's you set the option in there. Still, it's a bit disappointing to have to use another application when the capability is supposedly built into Vista. "usasma" wrote: Installed Vista Home Premium (Upgrade) on an XPPro system (clean install) with 2 displays. The desktop was extended to the 2nd display automatically when it setup. Unplugged 2nd display and uninstalled it in Device Manager. Rebooted - device not listed in Device Manager. Reconnected 2nd display and it reverted to the extended desktop. All the resources that I've read suggest that mirrored desktops are the default - and that the only way to achieve this is when the device is first connected. Any ideas on how to reset the 2nd display to be mirrored? The 2nd display is a 40" LCD that we use for displaying actions to the customers on the other side of the counter. TIA! - John |
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Cannot Mirror Desktop in Vista Home Premium
In the Control Panel, on the left side, there is a menu of "Tasks" One task is "Connect to a projector or other external display" When you select that, you get a dialogue that lets you chose mirrored or extended desktop. quote==?Utf-8?B?dXNhc21h?=;57514]FWIW - we did find a workaround today. The latest nVidia drivers are Vista certified, and installing the nVidia Control Panel let's you set the option in there. Still, it's a bit disappointing to have to use another application when the capability is supposedly built into Vista. "usasma" wrote: Installed Vista Home Premium (Upgrade) on an XPPro system (clean install) with 2 displays. The desktop was extended to the 2nd display automatically when it setup. Unplugged 2nd display and uninstalled it in Device Manager. Rebooted - device not listed in Device Manager. Reconnected 2nd display and it reverted to the extended desktop. All the resources that I've read suggest that mirrored desktops are the default - and that the only way to achieve this is when the device is first connected. Any ideas on how to reset the 2nd display to be mirrored? The 2nd display is a 40" LCD that we use for displaying actions to the customers on the other side of the counter. TIA! - John -- Figgerer Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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