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>From: Peter Lafford <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: #7388 Laptops that don't project?
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>Thread-Topic: #7388 Laptops that don't project?
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It may not be missing anything, but rather needs to have the desktop
screen setting set to have the external monitor as the primary video
display.
In any windows since at Windows 98 on, 
1. do a right-click on the desktop
2. Properties
3. Settings
4. Advanced
5. Display (I think)...
then identify the video display device which should have the video
showing.  Details vary with the video adapter... some will show video
only on one or the other; some on both, but you have to enable it.

I bet this is the problem you are having.

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Arizona State University
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>Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:39:12 -0800
>From: "Carol Reitan" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Laptops that don't project?

Hi,

I've just learned that the Toshiba laptops we check out to faculty will
not project video (from a DVD or web-based video). Apparently they are
missing some kind of special software that will allow that. One of our
instructors has a less expensive Computerland laptop that will project
video just fine. Does anyone know the generic name of the software
and/or a brand name that will help us track down what we need? (Imagine
the wrath of the instructor, having checked out the laptop expressly for
showing a DVD or some other video clip, having schlepped the laptop to
the newly wired classroom, made sure the projector cart was there, etc.
etc, and then not being able to make the video visible for the class? )

Thank you!


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City College of San Francisco
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